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In reply to the discussion: I'm 55 years old and have never owned a gun in my life. [View all]laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)Sounds like you're rambling. My grandfather smoked 2 packs of day since he was 11. He lived to be 97, but was goddamn miserable for the last 20 years of his life, because the smoking took away his leg and his lungs (was on oxygen most of those 20 years). If he wouldn't have smoked, he'd have had a much better time, like my other non-smoking grandfather who lived to be 102 and, until he was 100 and broke his hip, he was very active, mentally and physically. And much happier. 65 isn't all that old, you know. Not everyone who smokes dies of lung cancer before they're 50. Some die of another cancer. Some get emphysema, some lose limbs because of circulation issues, and some have heart attacks. My ex's uncle just dropped dead from one a few months back, after being a 'healthy' smoker since his teens. He was 66 years old.
Statistically speaking, your grandfather and uncle are more likely to die from their activities than the OP is from not having a gun to 'protect himself'. Just sayin'. If the point you are trying to make is that the OP is just lucky he hasn't died from not having a gun, then it's a BIG fail.