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I have been smoking since I was 12 years old and I’m 60 now. No ill effects so far. Yes I’m going to die eventually, same as everybody else. I was always politically incorrect and intend to remain this way to the end.
It is sad that so many people in the western world let their lives to be run by propaganda. It is fine if you smoke or don’t smoke because it is your decision. But if you smoke because of peer pressure or you don’t smoke because of advertising you have seen on TV, well what you are going to do if and when governments decide to reduce population and start 15 years advertising campaign telling people that the should commit suicides? Are you going to jump of the bridge because you have seen it on TV?
Fortunately it may not come to this, as the intolerance of various groups pushing their petty issues will fragment western societies to the point when societies more coherent in purpose will take over. Most of great empires disintegrated from the pressures within, not from the conquest.
As for the comment about doctors, I agree. In about 38 years I have been to doctor about 7 times. Then I had work accident. I have great admiration to the surgeon who wired together my shattered wrist. But then my problems started. It took doctors 3 weeks to find out that I got broken ribs, 2 months to find out that I got torn ligaments in the shoulder and 2 years to find out that I got fracture in my spine. At $ 450 initial visit to specialist and $ 175 for following visits that’s pretty poor value for money.
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