> And the Japanese _are_ fairly heavy smokers yet have very long lives. That's funny because I was going to write "I don't know how much truth is in what he wr

> And the Japanese _are_ fairly heavy smokers yet have very long lives. That's funny because I was going to write "I don't know how much truth is in what he writes about all those studies, but that statememt is complete bullshit". I've lived in Japan for a year, and my personal experience is that the Japanese smoke very little.