Gday...

Sorry Bob.   I seem to have an uncanny knack of never getting my intended message across on the forum.  Perhaps I need someone to read my posts back to me BEFORE I post them.

What I was trying to say is that smoking is not healthy

Additionally, the vast majority of our population live "in suburbia and/or near roads with vehicle exhausts, industrial areas, airports, etc etc" and therefore there is an horrendous potential for developing all sorts of ailments.

In some way, perhaps I was trying to say, although it didn't enter my head at the time, was that if we lived in clean country air, irrespective of smoking or otherwise, we would be in a better position to prolong the inevitable terminal disease called living.

Cheers - I'll try harder to get my messages clearer - John