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Originally Posted by Dr. Eugene Felikson
My grandmother is 80 years old, and has been smoking since she was 16 (and definitely smoked around me as a baby). Of all her various health problems; knee replacements, arthritis, skin cancer, etc., not one can be directly attributed to her smoking habits. Just sayin'.
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And my piano teacher had to spent 2 years in a hospital, stop working and nearly died because she got a lung oedema because of smoking.
There is something called "probabilities" ; no one is saying you will necessarily die or get some awful sickness because you do smoke, you just increase your probability to get one. Obviously you will always find counter-examples ; smoking is simply a factor that increases your risks. Just sayin'.
That said I don't mean to get into the smoking v. non-smoking debate because I've learned from having many of them that they always end up with people still as split in two parts as before they started, except even more angry ; plus I'm too bored to read the whole thread. Just that such sentences always struck me as being plain dumb, so I had to put my two cents.