yes.
Well, actually, it's probably not as simple as that. but there's an argument that if you happen to be not genetically predisposed to cancer, then all the smoking in the world won't give you cancer.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:57, 5 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

well battered has already proven himself to have defective genes

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:58, Reply)

I like those odds

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:59, Reply)

who the fuck would take that risk?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:00, Reply)

About 20% of the population?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:05, Reply)

I dunno
Who the fuck would try a starvation detox diet when you don't even have the advantage of genetic odds as to whether it's harmful?

Also, everything is a risk. You live in London, which is riskier than most places for all sorts of reasons, but I don't notice anyone telling you that you really should stop that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:07, Reply)

that's because london is supporting the rest of the country and they need us!

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:10, Reply)

haha. yeah, course it is.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:12, Reply)

we are the Baywatch floaty red thing to your bloated sinking corpse

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:13, Reply)

well, if it's a bloated corpse you're clearly fucking useless at your job, then.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:15, Reply)

who then want to get uppity about it.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:13, Reply)

Soon our Naked Mole Rat saviours will rise up and save us from the dreaded cancerous plague
and we can all go back to looking like James Dean again.
( Kroney, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:01, Reply)

This
I was hugely tempted to write into the ASA about the warnings on cigarettes as they imply that you will definitively get cancer by smoking. But then I realised that it was a) a waste of time b) the sort of thing only a huge prick would do
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:15, Reply)

You didn't want to waste your time then?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:16, Reply)

also and I realise I am talking to myself here
I wondered statistically, if living in the countryside and smoking was better for you than living in the city and not smoking.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:18, Reply)