Reply #18: exactly

[Ellis Wyatt]

And there are people who get lung cancer who have never smoked as well.

Not smoking won't prevent you from dying early, or getting cancer, or smelling like shit - and trust me smokers, you stink; your house stinks; your clothes stink - no matter how many hours it's been since your last cigarette.

But there can be no question that smoking increases your likelihood of all of the above.

Your perrogative, your life.

But realize how selfish you are if you support universal healthcare while you are willfully destroy your body and run up the rate of your healthcare expenses. Your small sample may not show that trend, but the CDC says that smoking adds $170B annually to healthcare costs (more even than obesity). If you want to smoke, that's fine. I won't even complain about your smell. It's your life. But your "stress relief" is costing me money. Period. That's selfish.

And realize of hypocritical you are if you rail against the evil, selfish rich, who complain about paying high tax rates to support the poor and unfortunate because they argue that it's their fault - the poor or fat or smokers or lazy or whoever, when you are a) acting just as selfishly and b) proving the rich peoples' case for them.