my 5 cents on the subject (very general comments)....i am a smoker but a very low drinker - a glass of wine or some other spirit once in a couple of months if even that...the main damage to our health is all the chemicals we have been exposed to in the last 4 decades...some more obviouse then others...why using toxic "air refreshers" to make your house small nice? what's wrong with simple dusting, vinegar wipping and keeping all the windows open? the sprayers do much more damage to our lungs then any puff from a cigarette will ever do as it is constant (24/7)...over bleaching every thing and keeping things sterile is another way to developing allergies and sensitivies to our health and skin conditions..all this contributes to declining fertiltiy and allergies as well..the least spoken about but proven is relation in contaceptive pills...apparently 2nd and 3rd generations of girls whose grandmothers/mothers were taking the pills have fertility problems - reproductive organs are stuffed genetically.....why else would there be so many young girls (late 20ties and early 30s on IVF treatments costing us millions?)...it seems just the use of condoms would be best...and as to alcohol? as yet i have to read about a smoker who kills anyone why driving under influence of smoke, or when getting home bashing/mainming or even killing someone because of having few "puffs" OR spending majority of its pay/wealfare benefits on the smokes making his/her family hungry, or damaging property and in general behaving like half human when drunk. And then the brain cells are damaged and they become even less "functional" plus liver and kidneys damage...give me a nice cigarette any time as my way of a great break after meal then a daily or heavy drinker....
