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Originally Posted by PureEvil
Well, sort of. Sure lots and lots of people smoke and end up dying from it, but lots and lots of people smoke and don't end up dying from it, so it's kind of untrue to say that if you smoke you're going to die from some cause related to smoking.
Plus, you might smoke and die in a traffic accident or something before cancer ever gets a hold of you. Then there's the point that just because you smoke doesn't mean you're going to live a shorter life than anyone else. Plenty of people get hit by cars, and shot, and everything else every single day (Which is what I meant).
Smoking might put something of a cap on your life expectancy, but there are many, many other things looking to take you out way before you ever get to that stage.
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Heh, well if it isn't PureEvil arguing for Hell's sake. Was that little speach trying to justify smoking, or disprove Stu? Whichever the case, smoking has been proven to contain deadly toxins, and there have been many cases of death caused by smoking.
Stu plainly pointed out that smoking is like playing Russian roulette with enough bullets to go around, and you tried justifying that someone could get a javaline through the back before they got their fair bullet to the head, meaning that they would not die due to the game (or smoking, according to the actual arguement in which no javalines were involved).
With all random elements aside, smoking can kill. The only way a person can smoke and claim that they won't die from it is to know the future of their demise, or have planned it him/herself.
...Moral of the story is - If you smoke, you give yourself one extra way to die. You could do everything right in the world, dodge bullets... avoid car wrecks, whatever is necessary and even impossible to stay alive, "death by smoking" will still be added to the stack.
Unless, of course, a javalineer sneaks up on you
