The fact that everyone who smokes doesn't get cancer doesn't impact the fact that it might be more likely that you'll have heart disease, kidney disease, or peripheral vascular disease and eventually have a stroke or heart attack. I'm more afraid of stroke than a number of other eventual ailments. I don't want to wind up as a prisoner in my own body. Even if you don't wind up with paralysis, there is a condition called multi-stroke dementia that is the equivalent of Alzheimer's disease. My friend I mentioned above, Buzz, the dermatologist, was thin and fit, never smoked or drank and disappeared in to a terrible disease; Alzheimer's. His mother died from Alzheimer's. Heredity it tough to overcome.

Last edited by David; 11/19/15 02:16 PM.