Yet on the issue of cigarettes that is really no longer an option. The smoking issue is far beyond gathering and disseminating information. Now there is only one acceptable and allowable viewpoint or attitude, and if you have a differing opinion you will be ridiculed and crushed underfoot. What scares the pants off me is not cigarettes, but the way our society is handling the issue of cigarettes. Society's approach is intolerance.
Smoking causes cancer, heart attacks, etc.
This is garbage on every level. Also there are plenty of examples of heavy life long smokers never having heart attacks or cancer. My personal belief is that smoking is nowhere near being an ideal activity. However, from where I sit, nearly everyone I've met does some, or participates in, less than ideal actions or behaviors. They are just as dependent on them as a way to deal with their feelings, and find it harder, if anything, to let go of their rage about them than a smoker does.