apmom wrote:
I smoke. I do not plan on quitting smoking. I am 71 years old and have smoked since I was 16. Will I ever get Cancer? Who the hell knows but it does not run in my family at all. Not either with the non-smokers OR the smokers. Many cancers are a partial result of what is in your dna, your genes. Some are more susceptible to it than others. But I look at it this way, I am going to die anyway so I may as well eat what I want (once in awhile anyway) and smoke as long as I want to. Period! I have lived a good, even if not a well-off life, married a man that was good, honest, hard working and loyal, raised two really great kids and now get to watch my 5 grandchildren grow into fine adults. There isn't a whole lot more that I care to do and with society today, not sure I want to stick around much longer anyway. I do not like the "me" generation of today much. I don't like it when I see it in my grandkids and don't like it when I see it in anyone else. That is just how it is.

Exactly AP!  Both of my grand fathers smoked.   Both lived till almost 90 years of age but my father only made it to the age of 58 when he died in 1948.   I can't say the same for my grand mothers who didn't smoke at all.  None of them had cancer and as far as I know, only my father died from heart failure.  

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

-- Dwight Eisenhower