fatandold - I never wished anyone cancer . What a nasty malicious misquote of me. Call me "vile"!! 
Yes you did, here:
fatandold Tue 07-Jun-16 14:02:01
Look in the mirror. Then go and give yourself more cancer, but don't expect me not to complain when your actions give it to me or my kids.
I've never met you so don't know if you're a vile person but that whole post was vile.
And pubes good luck with the smoker pity party. I refuse to consider smokers as innocent victims gripped by a horrible addiction outside of their control. It's self inflicted! There is plenty of help out there to quit.
Yes, there is plenty of help but it has about 91% failure rate long term.It's still worthwhile going for help if you're a smoker trying to quit because without help, the long-term failure rate is 96-97%.
More 'fun facts' ...
From ASH - Young people and smoking:
It is estimated that each year around 207,000 children in the UK start smoking. Among adult smokers, about two-thirds report that they took up smoking before the age of 18 and over 80% before the age of 20. The 2011 General Lifestyle Survey of adult smokers revealed that almost two-fifths (40%) had started smoking regularly before the age of 16.
Among children who try smoking it is estimated that between one third and one half are likely to become regular smokers within two to three years.
The younger the age of uptake of smoking, the greater the harm is likely to be because early uptake is associated with subsequent heavier smoking, higher levels of dependency, a lower chance of quitting, and higher mortality.
Children who experiment with cigarettes can quickly become addicted to the nicotine in tobacco. Children may show signs of addiction within four weeks of starting to smoke and before they commence daily smoking. One US study found that smoking just one cigarette in early childhood doubled the chance of a teenager becoming a regular smoker by the age of 17 and a London study suggests that smoking a single cigarette is a risk indicator for children to become regular smokers up to three years later.
From ASH - Nicotine and addiction:
Possibly one of the strongest indicators of the effect of nicotine inhaled through tobacco smoke is the discrepancy between the desire to quit and quitting success rates. Surveys consistently show that the majority of smokers (around two-thirds) want to stop smoking yet the successful quit rate remains very low.
The power of addiction is further demonstrated by the fact that some smokers are unable to stop smoking even after undergoing surgery for smoking-related illnesses. One study found that around forty per cent of those who had a laryngectomy resumed smoking soon after surgery, while about 50 per cent of lung cancer patients resumed smoking after undergoing surgery. Among smokers who have had a heart attack, as many as 70% take up smoking again within a year. More recent studies confirm the difficulties faced by smokers in quitting even following the diagnosis of a life threatening illness.
The 'utterly selfish cuntish fuckers' eh?
I'm not interested in a 'pity party'. As I said previously, I'm just interested in what works because there are currently 100,000 preventable deaths each year in the UK from smoking. A nice side-effect of helping more people to successfully quit is that fewer non-smokers would be bothered by smokers so often, so we should really be on the same 'side' here. I think some people simply haven't grasped the seriousness and scale of the problem, so they see their personal annoyance at smokers as the main issue.