Thanks, Ellenpoly - and same to you!

Hey GUEST, I was only doing some on-line wondering, (hence the word "hypothesis" in your quote). It's a mystery to me how I somehow stay healthier than majority of the non-smokers I know, and why many smokers DO start suffering asthma and allergies for the first time in their lives after they quit. There has to be a reason for that! I've been smoking for 35 years - if all the propoganda about Tobacco is true, shouldn't I be pushing up daisies by now, or at least unable to walk across the room without losing my breath or something???

If I do get cancer tomorrow, I'll be sure to start a thread about it though. That way you'll at least have something to gloat about.

I'll welcome Death with open arms when it does come for me, for whatever reason. Mark Twain says it all imo, and a lot better than I ever could ...

Life was not a valuable gift, but death was. Life was a fever-dream made up of joys embittered by sorrows, pleasure poisoned by pain; a dream that was a nightmare-confusion of spasmodic and fleeting delights, ecstasies, exultations, happinesses, interspersed with long-drawn miseries, griefs, perils, horrors, disappointments, defeats,humiliations, and despairs--the heaviest curse devisable by divine ingenuity; but death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

- Letters from the Earth