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Do you really think I haven't heard that before? That I am not completely informed of the risks? Even a pack-a-day smoker is more likely to die from prostate c
by sho 18y ago
Do you really think I haven't heard that before? That I am not completely informed of the risks?
Even a pack-a-day smoker is more likely to die from prostate cancer. Basically, smoking raises your (already high) chance of dying from cancer by something like 50%. I know this. I choose to make the trade-off, since I believe I have a quality of life improvement from smoking. Who knows though, I may change my mind as I get older. I doubt it though, I have too much stress.
Anyway, just spamming "quit!" messages is obnoxious and fruitless. Sorry about my equally rude reply but IMO it's justified.
- lacker 18y agoFair enough. Hard for me to argue since I held pretty much exactly your view when I was 22 and smoking. Nothing really suddenly changed for me. At some point it just seemed like it wasn't as good any more. I figured I would quit for a bit to see how that was, got surprised how hard it was to quit even for a day, and then got scared at how addicted I was and got serious about quitting. It took a couple years of struggling after that and now I wish someone had kicked some sense into me earlier, but I don't know how they could have done that. So I am kind of frustrated in this discussion because I feel like the right thing to do is to really try to convince people to quit smoking, but I don't know how to do that.
- mistermann 18y ago"I doubt it though, I have too much stress." LOL....I wish you lived in the same city as me, we could smoke together!