Perhaps they know something we don't. hmm?
2006-10-23 20:26:44 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
No one knows when your time is up. But when the clock stops, that's it. With that said, I am a smoker and have always joked that "if smoking takes 10 years off my life, then I hope its the 10 years of being in the nursing home, having my diaper changed and my food processed in a blender". Once your hooked, its hard to beat.
2006-10-23 20:39:37 · answer #1 · answered by mike4514 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have been smoking for a very long time and have been hooked from before we knew it was bad for everyone health. just because they lived that long doesn't make it OK to smoke but if they "enjoy" smoking let them they have come that far and have done everything they want(hopefully)
2006-10-23 20:33:34 · answer #2 · answered by keoni_21 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
back in the days when they were young smoking was very popular because the health risks were unknown. If the were in the war then its very likely they smoked to calm their nerves. You cant take their smokes away because it would kill them. Their bodies are so used to it. Its hard to understand why they havnt got cancer and smoked all their lives.
2006-10-23 20:29:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ha. I know what you mean. My great-grandfather worked in the coal mines, had black lung, chewed tobacco, ate lard and grease by the fistful, and lived to be 95. Sometimes you just beat the odds.
2006-10-23 20:30:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
There aren't a lot of them. I've watched too many smokers die from cancer and emphysema.
2006-10-23 20:35:35 · answer #5 · answered by Lola 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are 96 years old why quite now they are so close to death any way and they probably done it for so long anyway.
2006-10-23 20:29:23 · answer #6 · answered by knowssignlanguage 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a point where to stop smoking could be more injurious to you. If they didn't smoke they could be living much longer.
2006-10-23 20:30:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
probably because they had parents who lived to be 95 and smoked too!!! Extreme old age is genetic
2006-10-23 20:36:16 · answer #8 · answered by virginia o 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, they can tell you the names of all of the smokers they burried.
2006-10-23 20:30:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good observation, but just how many are there
2006-10-23 20:31:00 · answer #10 · answered by oracle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋