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Agreed, except smoking. Can we agree, smoking isn't a good idea anymore? I lost 20 years of healthy life for a wasteful addiction and it started in 1991 when I

Agreed, except smoking. Can we agree, smoking isn't a good idea anymore? I lost 20 years of healthy life for a wasteful addiction and it started in 1991 when I was 16.

epx 11y ago
People are drinking way more to compensate for that. I prefer that people kill themselves instead of killing others (in traffic accidents related to alcohol, etc.)
- function_seven 11y ago
  1. Where do you get that stat from? 2. If true, why do you think it's compensating for reduced smoking?
- enraged_camel 11y ago
  >>People are drinking way more to compensate for that. Very interesting. Are there statistics that demonstrate this? Specifically, are people really drinking more, and if so, how do we know it is to compensate for reduced smoking?
- militia 11y ago
  Kids are drinking less as per the article
enraged_camel 11y ago
>>I lost 20 years of healthy life for a wasteful addiction and it started in 1991 when I was 16. Do you mean you smoked for 20 years, or that you lost 20 years of lifespan due to smoking? If it's the latter, I remember reading in a medical study that the adverse health effects of smoking are mostly reversed several years after the person stops smoking. :)
- skissane 11y ago
  Maybe it was the amount of money lost spending on cigarettes all those years? (Not just the money itself, but think of the possible investment returns if it had been invested instead of smoked.) I used to be a reasonably heavy drinker, then I quit more or less cold turkey, didn't drink a drop for over 6 months, and even though I've now gone back to drinking a bit, I'm very careful now to limit my intake to well within the health guidelines (i.e. no more than one or two a night, no more than a couple of nights a week). Not only has this done good things for my health, it's done great things for my finances.
- forgotpwagain 11y ago
  I seem to recall it being that one's risk of lung cancer due to smoking drops to being very close to a non-smoker's risk after refraining from smoking for 10 years. Other damage is certainly done to the lungs that can cause other issues--emphysema, cardiovascular problems, etc--but the risk from the "scariest" threat out there is greatly diminished.

Agreed, except smoking. Can we agree, smoking isn't a good idea anymore? I lost 20 years of healthy life for a wasteful addiction and it started in 1991 when I was 16.

epx 11y ago

People are drinking way more to compensate for that. I prefer that people kill themselves instead of killing others (in traffic accidents related to alcohol, etc.)

function_seven 11y ago
1. Where do you get that stat from? 2. If true, why do you think it's compensating for reduced smoking?
enraged_camel 11y ago
>>People are drinking way more to compensate for that. Very interesting. Are there statistics that demonstrate this? Specifically, are people really drinking more, and if so, how do we know it is to compensate for reduced smoking?
militia 11y ago
Kids are drinking less as per the article

enraged_camel 11y ago

>>I lost 20 years of healthy life for a wasteful addiction and it started in 1991 when I was 16. Do you mean you smoked for 20 years, or that you lost 20 years of lifespan due to smoking? If it's the latter, I remember reading in a medical study that the adverse health effects of smoking are mostly reversed several years after the person stops smoking. :)

skissane 11y ago
Maybe it was the amount of money lost spending on cigarettes all those years? (Not just the money itself, but think of the possible investment returns if it had been invested instead of smoked.) I used to be a reasonably heavy drinker, then I quit more or less cold turkey, didn't drink a drop for over 6 months, and even though I've now gone back to drinking a bit, I'm very careful now to limit my intake to well within the health guidelines (i.e. no more than one or two a night, no more than a couple of nights a week). Not only has this done good things for my health, it's done great things for my finances.
forgotpwagain 11y ago
I seem to recall it being that one's risk of lung cancer due to smoking drops to being very close to a non-smoker's risk after refraining from smoking for 10 years. Other damage is certainly done to the lungs that can cause other issues--emphysema, cardiovascular problems, etc--but the risk from the "scariest" threat out there is greatly diminished.