re: why do people smoke in 2015?

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My grandmother died of lung cancer and never smoked in her life. My other grandmother smoked for fifty five years and is still kicking with no cancer in her.

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2 person sample size isn't really representative. Sorry about your grandmother though.

The deal with smoking is, it raises your risk of lung cancer, and you're more likely to get a bad lung cancer than a nonsmoker. But the percentage of smokers who get lung cancer still isn't extravagantly high or anything.

But, if you smoke your whole life and make it into old age without the detrimental cardiovascular effects killing you first, the vast majority of lifetime smokers end up with COPD. Which sucks.