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Mostly, it helps you look cool - very cool. Cool and potentially cancerous, but, cool nonetheless.
It does I started to look cool and because my girlfriend wanted me to lose weight, I mean all the people and icons back in the fifties did it and they were fine.
Yeah, those people and icons from the fifties were all totally fine. Here's a list of some people who died from throat or esophageal cancer or heart attacks caused by smoking (which causes blood clots) or emphysema:
nah they weren't fine, shirley temple is the first example that comes to mind