re: Do you question the intelligence of people who smoke cigarettes?

I question, today, why anyone would start at all. Research showed that eating foods fried in lard seriously shortens your life. Research shows that your chances of lung cancer, lip or throat cancer, pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, stroke, emphzema and tuberculosis are so incredibly elevated over if you never smoked that it does cast some doubt on a person's intelligence for simply starting. I undertand addiction. I smoked beginning at 15 and quit New Year's Eve 1997. I enjoyed it right up to commiting and quiting. I didn't need patches, or other crutches. I needed willpower. I look at young people today who smoke and wonder why they started knowing how bad it is for you and how addictive it is.