GUEST, if you are going to preach, I'd like to know who you are.

Yes, smoking can cause cancer. It does not, however, cause cancer in every single person who smokes or breathes second-hand smoke.

My father smoked unfiltered Pall-Malls for better than 50 years. He did not die of cancer. He didn't even have cancer. He died from diabetes complications. He was 69. MAYBE he would have lived longer if he had left off the smokes. Then again, maybe not.

Did George Burns have cancer?

The husband of a lady I know has just been diagnosed with lung cancer. Never smoked a-tall.

A former PhysEd professor at my college was the fittest person I ever met. Two years ago, after running a biathlon, he literally dropped dead from heart failure. Here was a man who had done EVERYTHING right.

Like Amos said, there are a lot of things that can kill us. I could get hit by a bus tomorrow. Or choke on a green bean. When it's my turn, it's my turn.

I don't smoke often and I enjoy the times that I do. I'm going to die no matter what. So are you. So let's enjoy it while we can and everybody get off your tall horses so we can be on the same level.

Cheers------ KFC