You're not an anti-smoking nazi. If so, I am the Fuhrer. My mother began to smoke at the age of 14. For years she smoked cigs without a filter and only halfway through did she start smoking cigs with filters. Once she tried nicotine patches but carried on smoking her regular amount each day 'just until the patches start working.' Needless to say she become very ill as she was now getting double the amount of nicotine. So she stopped the patches because 'they didn't agree with her.' But then her body had become used to the higher nicotine levels and she smoked even more. Today she is 77 (looks over 100) and for the last four years has been bedridden with an oxygen machine on 24/7 - even though she has been told to have it on for 18 hours a day max. She also has a nebuliser. She dosen't smoke anymore because she has an oxygen bottle beside her in case the machine breaks down. The only reason she stopped smoking was she was told if she smoked near the oxygen she would take out a jumbo on the way up and another on the way down. She can't even lift up an arm without being out of breath and lives in a constant state of panic, being so dependent on others. She admits to regretting ever smoking. Too late. Far too late.