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Leonard Nimoy: Smoking Is Illogical

Posted by timothy on from the even-with-little-dollar-signs-on-the-tube dept.

An anonymous reader writes "My boyhood hero, actor Leonard Nimoy, has developed lung disease. To those still smoking and in the grips of marketing induced denial, he says 'quit now.' Small acts of goodness make the universe a better place."

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  1. Re:Seriously - GTFO by 1s44c · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nimoy didn't get lung cancer, he got COPD.

    Smoking does heavily increase your chance of getting lung cancer but it's not the sole cause of it. Smoking does make you far more likely to suffer from one or more of a very large array of nasty illnesses during your lifetime. It also reduces your life span significantly.

    Quit smoking if you care at all about the risks of illness and disability that smoking causes. Or accept that you are a nicotine junkie and that you are lying to yourself about your habit because you can't face withdrawal.