Letters: Stubbing out cigarettes can breathe new life into you

Letters: Stubbing out cigarettes can breathe new life into you - Scotsman.com News

The message from the study is not that if you want to live to be over 100 you should smoke, drink and not exercise (or that it makes little difference), it is that there are rare people who will live to be over 100 almost regardless of what they do.

Putting the findings in context, the larger body of research of which the new study is just one part indicates that, for most people, lifestyle factors do make a very large difference to life expectancy. Sir Richard Doll in his landmark Doctors Study observed an average ten-year difference in life expectancy attributable to smoking.

Oh good,tobacco control giving more great advise on how to live.

Sometimes it is more about quality of life than anything else.I know of  a great many people who have had their happy social lives destroyed by the type of thinking tc dispenses regularly.

It makes me too mad to finish whatever I was going to say.

Does Smoke-Free Living Hurt Civility? - Edward Tenner - Life - The Atlantic

Does Smoke-Free Living Hurt Civility? - Edward Tenner - Life - The Atlantic

I don't smoke, hate second-hand smoke, was tormented while living in Washington by smoke from an adjacent apartment, and accept the overwhelming medical case against even casual water-pipe smoking. Still, I'm just short of a third cheer for the anti-smoking movement I support. I wonder whether there is a hidden cost to our healthier lifestyles, especially in giving up tobacco's role as a political and social lubricant

Not a totally positive story,but worth reading anyway.
It's a sort of surprise to see someone who hates smoking thinking that it may not be all negative.