I am a non smoker. There are other things than cancer. When I lived in Tividale in the Black Country my neigbour lost the use of his legs because his arteries blocked due to smoking. Now I live "up North", my neighbour has just had his leg amputated because his arteries blocked due to smoking, causing a severe leg ulcer and poisoning his body so much his leg practically dropped off of its own accord, but first there was this huge amount of pain , every day, for weeks, months, years before he had the operation. Both smokers began the habit before the risks were known. Now we know the risks, and also that non smokers can get severe illness through passive smoking. Perhaps those who start smoking these days could sign a declaration that when, not if but when, they need treatment, they wont ask my hard earned taxes to pay for their operation on the NHS and for the care they will need when they are legless.
What i dont understand is why are businesses allowed to manufacture such things, including the drugs, and the guns and the knives .....   
oh dear I think I had better get my spaceship and blast off the planet, I must be totally non PC, going against all those human rights
Lin
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