On 9/22/2017 9:18 AM, Cheri wrote:
> > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:48:05 -0400, jmcquown >
>
>>> Then again, there are plenty of people who never smoked who died of lung
>>> cancer.* Living is a dangerous business.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> I know three or four people, who smoked, and died of lung cancer.* Are
>> you busy trying to justify smoking?
>
>
> I know two who died of lung cancer who never smoked, but did work in the
> shipyards during the war. I see nothing in Jill's post that is *trying
> to justify smoking* she's just stating a fact.
>
> Cheri

I most certainly was not trying to justify smoking. I'm pretty sure
everyone knows smoking is bad for your health. How about this: lets
blame the Native Americans.

http://www.ushistory.org/us/2d.asp

Apparently people have been railing against it since 1604:

"Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful
to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume
thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is
bottomless.

– James I of England, A Counterblaste to Tobacco (1604)"

Jill