Quote from: Pikachu on November 08, 2014, 06:46:19 PM
My dad's still alive and relatively healthy after a lifetime of smoking, which makes me think it might be true that the good die young and ***holes live forever. 
Oh yeah. The good die young so I will probably live to be 130.
But sometimes genetics play a bigger role than habits. Something is gonna' get you. We all have to leave this world sometime. Some live to be 90 and others die before they leave the womb. Life ain't fair and kind of sux at times.
Quote from: Ms Grace on November 08, 2014, 05:24:50 PM
Well smoking and HRT can significantly reduce your risk of blot clots and that's some pretty nasty $#*+ right there. Strokes won't necessarily kill you but they may lose you half your body. Clots might lose you a leg or the ability to stay on HRT.
Sure we all die, sure life is there for enjoying - but smoking can also result in very slow very painful deaths. I had an uncle who I remember as being a big strong man, regular smoker who got emphysema even after quitting about ten years earlier - he was a pale, skeletal shadow of his former self, confined to his living room with an oxygen tank barely strong enough to speak with his gravelly voice. And he was like that for about two years before he died. 
I am at a very high risk of deep vein thrombosis. Sitting for long periods without stopping and walking around. I am talking sometimes 14 hours atr a time without stretching my legs. Again like ealrier I think it is all genetics, with this blood, and the immune system or how well your body can disentegrate blood clots. In the lungs is bad. In the heart worst. But we all take chances everyday driving to work.
