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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say.

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On Mon, 03 Apr 2017 04:53:56 +0100, Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> wrote:

> On 04/02/2017 02:12 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>> That reminds me of the "South Park" show where the (young) workers at a
>>> cigarette factory were saying "You might get cancer when you're 80 but
>>> who the hell wants to be 90 anyway". Not the way you'd feel when you're
>>> 80 already.
>>
>> A short happy life is better than a long dull one.
>>
>
> You have not yet shown anything "happy" about a stinky fire hazard that
> causes cancer.

CAN cause cancer, at the choice of the smoker, who is clearly enjoying the immediate effects of it.  It's why they smoke.

> Also, I have been in a cancer treatment facility, and many of the
> patients had lung cancer. Some of them had to breathe through holes in
> their throats. Most of these people were not that old.

You see the few with problems, most don't have problems.  Anyway it was THEIR choice.

-- 
19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that christmas decorations were chocolate.

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