Ok ok, it is LESS BAD for you. Happy now? ;)

smoking is a appetite suppresant but in no way can smoking can be see as being healthier and there is no link between being overweight and premature death same as there is no link to global warming being caused by humanity so dont believe all the lies that can be peddled , when you eat you affect no-one but yourself when you smoke you damage everyone within the smokes range

Stay sturdy.

A friend of me just got the message cancer in both his longs, they give hem three months.:cry:
He was a smoker all his live.

Reason people put on weight after quitting is because their metabolism slows down to what it should be. Smoking regularly affects the metabolism. And when you stop your body has to basically self-right itself.

I don't consider my own smoking on weekends particularly harmful, 2 or 3 ciggies (menthol only) and 2 cigars and thats my lot per week. Smoking gives you a sort of, "hunger satisfied" feeling so that is why it helps combat eating in that respect, but if you do eat a smoker is as prone to weight gain as anybody.

Hear Hear!!

Bah! Good or bad, I ain't quittin' until 3 days after I'm dead. Buried in my favorite sneakers with a smoke in my mouth, thats how Ill go.

My Daddy didn't raise a quitter.

:|\\

Light 'em if you got 'em.

:rotfl: :rotfl:

Hey man, even Bill Hicks tried to quit.:rotfl:

If someone told you that Arsenic decreased risk of skin cancer, would you go out and start eating alot of Arsenic? The overall damage of these chemical exposures should be compared to their benefit. The damage of longstanding cigarette exposure is still very high.

I would be all for that, if we could deny smokers access to medical care to keep them from being such a financial burden on others. All the lung cancer chemotherapy, lobectomies, coronary stent placements, coronay artery bypass grafts, acute MIs with or without thrombolytic therapy, cardiac care unit admissions, hemicolectomies, ischemic strokes, carotid endarterectomies, abdominal aortic aneurysm repairs, and transitional cell carcinomas are all pretty costly.

All those health problems are expensive. You guys are a drain on society. Yep, that's right, you heard me...:huh:

That is a bit over the top as analogies go. Arsenic has been a known poison for centuries. How about driving an automobile. In the US, that activity kills more than 41,000 people every year. Yet, no one questions it unless the whole global warming issue is raised. Even then how many are willing to give up their freedom to make the choice, drive or not drive?

Ultimately smokers die at a younger age than non-smokers and eat up less of the money. Non-smokers are more of a burden than smokers.

$0.02 In combat they gave cigs.free.Your going to die tomorrow:"Light 'em if you got 'em." Now that we are addicted,$4.50 or Quit,it's tax!:damn:

Slap more tax on £5 for a pack of 10 and £10 for a pack of 20. :smug:

Maybe we can do away with the upper-upper classes by making them so expensive that only they can afford them, thus killing them off with the cancer sticks ;)