i understand smoking is the hardest addiction to kick (harder than heroin); but the music industry's acceptance and/or encouragement of the habit has made it seem so chic to do so. we have lost way too many talented people (musicians, and non-musicians alike) to cancer, emphasyima (i myself have lost 2 uncles to lung cancer, and another has taken ill recently), infections, and other heart/respritory ailments because of smoking and second-hand smoking; i just think it's about time that we stop pretending this is socially acceptable....these deaths could have been prevented. just from a financial perspective, we as artists and engineers don't have pensions; most of us are without insurance. we need to protect our health jealously! it's because i was told not to by someone i respected that i never began; i feel that we should try to encourage a more healthy lifestyle for the kids that look up to us (they all seem to believe we're cool or something, i don't get it either).
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