Dear Final Line,
I grew up in a household of big time Smokers most of my colleagues in later life smoked and yeah nicotine has many wonderful attributes for sure,but now as so many have run their race,most are gone while their non smoking mates live on....the clincher for me is a pair of my acquaintances,identical Twins,now 63 both have led very privileged lives kept very secure at home by kind and generous husbands one is a smoker,bit on the heavy side,soft and flabby with a face like a wrinkled old prune,presents as a woman in her seventies the other is slim fit,very active,healthy complexion looks about 45...Interesting though the smoker is a far happier Girl,always cheerful and jocular so perhaps,as I think a few of our posters are seeming to say,it is a trade off? So could it be a case of "Live fast,die young and leave a beautiful corpse" LOL