CompuServe Messages

As a diabetic, I take in a lot of Nutrasweet but it's no big deal. I'm not sure about tobacco, but sugar will definitely kill me. In point of fact, the one thing I can prove is that smoking is not dragging down anybody's health care system. If their own figures on premature deaths are correct, few smokers live to be as old as nonsmokers. According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, they actually make a profit on smokers because they die before they fully exhaust what they put into the system and thus leave surpluses. As I say, though, they may be right. My father started smoking at 13, quit at 81, and lived another 6 years, so there might well be hope for me yet.