I have never smoked. I have had friends and family who have. I have never had the urge to try but now that I am a medical transcriptionist and type about so many people who have terrible problems, can't breathe without oxygen cannula with them all the time, have lung cancer, etc., it's even more pressed home how harmful it is.

I sympathize with those who find it really hard to quit. Who's to say I wouldn't find it just as hard if I had ever started. It's too bad the things were ever invented in the first place. You would not believe how many of the common health problems those things cause with people, from frequent respiratory infections to death from lung failure and cancers.