Slashing your smoking may not help your health - health - 28 November 2006 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?feedId=online-news_rss20&id=dn10672
"Smokers who believe they can avoid fatal disease by slashing the number of cigarettes they smoke each day are sorely mistaken, according to a new study which suggests the only safe way to escape the risk is to quit."
Lansing State Journal:Howard Weyers: Smoking is serious business for us all
http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041030/OPINION02/410300314/1087/opinion
"Decision to dismiss smoking workers wasn't made lightly"
Weyco fires 4 employees for refusing smoking test
http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw110547_20050124.htm
'"I don't want to pay for the results of smoking," he said.'
Smoking wipes 10 years off a life
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996054
"Quitting at 30 virtually eliminates the risk from dying prematurely, and giving up at 50 halves it. But half of those who fail to kick the habit will die as a result of smoking, and a quarter of all smokers die in middle-age." Looks like Dave had the ri