[Just A Nobody]

Not everyone who has smoked or who smokes will have emphysema or lung cancer. Some people are more predisposed to getting cancer than others. We just never know.

That is just exactly right. All the more reason to live and let live.

My ex was having chest pains at 38 years old. In the ER they did all kinds of tests. They walked in saying, "well the good news is you are not a smoker." Little did they know he had been a smoker since he was 13 or so and was at that time up to 2-3 packs per day, and was quite of smoker of other things for 15 years as well. (before I ever met him)

[Just A Nobody]

BTW, I am really sorry for all you are and have gone through and your loses. I know how hard it is but it does not give us license to impose our believes on others.

This subject just gets me so angry. There is just soooo much more to it than the "real or imagined" health issues.