Reply #133: Edward R. Murrow, Rod Serling, Ernie Kovacs, Humphrey Bogart

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Okay, I quibble: Kovacs was killed when he lost control of his car fumbling with a light for his cigar...

Then again, there's Eubie Blake, who lived past 100 while smoking 2 packs a day since the age of 8 and eating a pound of hard candy a day.

Lest we forget, too: Andy Kaufman wasn't a smoker, but he died of lung cancer.

What's the point? It's DANGEROUS.

Second hand smoke is dangerous REGARDLESS of what a snotty libertarian like Penn Jillette says; libertarians have a bizarre worldview that sees no harm unless it's provable death, and preferably on a large scale.

I don't think it should be banned, and I think smokers should be accomodated with smoking areas and the like, but it's not to be taken lightly.