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[QUOTE=sfumato1002;1582450]Thanks everyone for the good advice, I willl smoke the cigarettes until my pipe tobacco gets here. I do enjoy the pipe more. I smoke Virginia type tobacco in my pipe and I enjoy it more than the cigarettes.

Anyway, I enjoy smoking. Everyone says that smoking is unhealthy and you will die, well, Charlton Heston was a lifelong non-smoker and he died at 84, RIP. My point is that we all die. Charlton Heston was fighting alzheimer's during the las 6 years of his life. So at 78 or earlier, Heston's began to suffer alzheimer's.....and that is no way to live.

John Wayne is said to smoke 6 packs a day. He was a very heavy smoker and died at the age of 72.

My point is we all die... non-smokers may live longer.... but old age and sickness,diseases are inevitable for "both" smokers and non-smokers.

I started smoking cigarettes in the early 60s, smoked a pipe and cigarettes in the early 70s and inhaled both.. Then in the 80s just smoked cigarettes again..Mid 80s quit smoking and chewed snuff, late 80s quit that..Mid 90s sarted smoking cigars and did not inhale,,now smoke pipe and cigars and do not inhale.. During most of that time I was an avid tennis player and jogger,,smoking never bothered me in respect to running and endurance in tennis.. I know I'm a freak but just maybe I'm a freak of nature..


Jerry in Minnesota.