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Originally Posted by Rndm_Perfection
Heh, well if it isn't PureEvil arguing for Hell's sake. Was that little speach trying to justify smoking, or disprove Stu?
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Hmmm... A little bit from column A, and a little bit from column B.
I didn't say that smoking wasn't harmful. I didn't say that smoking won't kill you. What I said was that just because someone smokes doesn't mean they're going to die a smoke-related death, or even get a smoke-related disease.
They might, of course, but who's to say what will happen to any one of us at any given point in time?
Stu said, "
I don't understand smokers...I mean, there is an addiction and it's hard to fight...but hell...YOU'RE GOING TO DIE. DIE DIE DIE. Seems like an easy choice despite the intangibles..."
And what I was saying in response is that they very well might not die as a result of smoking. Just because you smoke doesn't mean it's going to kill/otherwise affect you in any way.
Lots of people smoke and die from some smoke-related thing, but on the other hand, lots of people smoke and
don't die from it. There are a lot of people who smoke and die from old age just like anyone else.
You said, "
With all random elements aside, smoking can kill." Yes. I absolutely agree. But the key word in that sentence is
can. It might not. Hell, for lots of people it doesn't. You can't guarantee that smoking will kill a person, and I can't guarantee that it won't.
As far as the whole "random elements" thing is concerned, you can't just push them aside. Life is full of random elements. You may be disregarding them for argument's sake, but in this discussion about life and death, randomness can't be ignored. It's just as important for the whole picture as everything else is.
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...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."
Here's what I said originally: "
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."
What's the difference? We're just looking at it from different angles.