re: Do you feel bad for smokers that they are so weak and crippled by addiction

During my ENT rotation, we had to remove this dude's lower jaw, tongue, and most of his upper airways because of cancer secondary to smoking for 20+ years. He had a permanent tracheotomy and one of those mechanical voice modulators.  It was a monstrosity procedure... I saw the dude a year later outside the hospital smoking through his tracheotomy...