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    popa_bar_abba
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    Lung disease from smoking takes a while to develop. It’s very unlikely to get lung cancer or emphysema in the first few years at least.

    So at what age is it appropriate to start smoking since you’re highly unlikely to get lung disease before you die of something else anyway?

    See also http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/bochurim-who-smoke?replies=26#post-649806

    #1222825
    👑RebYidd23
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    You wait until everyone else is old enough that your secondhand smoke won’t cause lung cancer.

    #1222826
    iacisrmma
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    The best way to quit smoking is never to start!

    #1222827
    zahavasdad
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    42

    #1222828
    Joseph
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    119.

    #1222829
    Moshe1994
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    I’d say 6 years old, give them a cigarette and tell them to take a deep puff… I guarantee they will never smoke again their entire life. 🙂

    #1222830
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    At the age of 119, your body is probably not very strong, and while normally one smoke won’t kill anyone, if a 119-year old who has never smoked smarts smoking, I would imagine it could be quite dangerous. It’s probably safer to start at 70 or 75 than at 119 (especially since the average life span for men is only around 79, I think).

    If you really have to smoke, you should probably do what one person I know does – he only smokes once a week, on Motzei Shabbos, because he says you can’t get addicted from smoking once a week.

    But best of course is not to smoke at all!

    #1222831
    Meno
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    Moshe1994,

    I had a Rebbe who’s father gave him a cigar when he was little in the hopes that he would hate it and never smoke again. He actually ended up enjoying it, though I don’t think he ended up smoking regularly.

    #1222832
    👑RebYidd23
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    If you want to try that trick, don’t use nicotine.

    #1222833
    Meno
    Participant

    Are there cigarettes without nicotine?

    #1222834
    Health
    Participant

    PBA -“What age to start smoking?”

    Start as soon as possible!

    The sooner you start, the better it is for me!

    #1222835
    I. M. Shluffin
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    Are you a doctor or a funeral director?

    #1222836
    Meno
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    “Are you a doctor or a funeral director?”

    If he’s a doctor that sounds extremely unethical.

    I’m not sure there’s any formal code of ethics for funeral directors

    #1222837
    Moshe1994
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    @ Meno I said that you should tell them to take a “Deep” puff, by doing that it significantly reduces the chance they will like it. (btw I wasn’t being serious)

    #1222838

    That guy would probably not experience

    withdrawal if he stopped his weekly smoke.

    #1222839

    I wonder what the health impact of 1 cigarette a week is?

    #1222840
    yehudayona
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    Wikipedia has a list of the 100 verified oldest people. Only one lived to be over 120: Jeanne Calment, 122 years 164 days. The woman in the #2 spot lived to be over 119. After that, nobody even hit 118, though there are a few still in the running. So I think it’s safe to start smoking on your 119th birthday, since it seems unlikely you’ll be there to celebrate.

    #1222841
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    “So I think it’s safe to start smoking on your 119th birthday, since it seems unlikely you’ll be there to celebrate.”

    But only for men. Apparently it’s only men who are limited to 120 years and not women. Maybe that’s why many people write ‘???? for women instead of ????.

    Personally, I never understood why we are putting limits on anyone’s age whether male or female. Does it actually say anywhere that a man can’t live past 120? As far as I know it doesn’t, so why limit their lifespan?

    #1222842
    Moshe1994
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    The origin of the Minhag to say “you should live to 120!” Was because Moshe Rabbeinu lived till 120.

    #1222843
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    I know but that doesn’t really answer my question.

    #1222844
    rebshidduch
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    popa, never.

    #1222845
    huju
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    Joseph and LU give the same answer, yet Joseph is right and LU is wrong. Discuss.

    #1222846
    Health
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    Meno -“If he’s a doctor that sounds extremely unethical.”

    I’m in the medical field. Who are you to determine what’s considered ethical or not?!?

    #1222847
    👑RebYidd23
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    Every member of society has a part in deciding what’s ethical.

    #1222848
    Health
    Participant

    Yidd23 -“Every member of society has a part in deciding what’s ethical”

    That’s true, but there is a Toldah called medical ethics!

    It’s even given in college.

    Did you ever go to college?

    #1222849
    Meno
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    I went to college so I’ll respond (though I’m not sure what this has to do with college).

    Health,

    Do you think it’s consistent with the Code of Medical Ethics for a professional in the medical field to suggest that a person should do something that is detrimental to his own health in order that the medical professional should benefit?

    A simple “yes” or “no” should suffice

    #1222850
    Lightbrite
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    “Every member of society has a part in deciding what’s ethical.” (RebYidd23)

    Except in Torah right? In an observant Jewish community, if someone takes ethics into his own mind/heart and that goes against what everyone else is thinking/doing, then he/she could risk being expelled from that society. Oui?

    #1222851
    👑RebYidd23
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    Torah is not ethics.

    And Health, if you’re acknowledging the existence of medical ethics, why doesn’t it apply to you?

    #1222852
    yehudayona
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    Although Health! has claimed to be in the medical field, I don’t think he has said he’s a medical professional.

    #1222853
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    “Joseph and LU give the same answer, yet Joseph is right and LU is wrong. Discuss.”

    Where do you see that we give the same answer? And how could Joseph be right and I be wrong?

    #1222854
    Meno
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    Where do you see that we give the same answer? And how could Joseph be right and I be wrong?

    I thought Joseph and LU are the same person

    #1222855
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    If we’re the same person, we’re schizophrenic because we disagree sometimes.

    We also have very different personalities. And live in different time zones.

    #1222856
    Lightbrite
    Participant

    “If we’re the same person, we’re schizophrenic because we disagree sometimes.” (LU)

    Or just honest about your cognitive dissonance.

    We all have it. I want peas for dinner and ice cream. I only chose one because I really don’t want the other but I actually do but I don’t but I do.

    #1222857
    frumnotyeshivish
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    The topic should be: at what age are other people entitled to make hygiene decisions for others- particularly those they don’t know? (NEWSFLASH TO THE SECOND HAND SMOKE BANDWAGON FOLK: occasional second hand smoke outdoors is about as unhealthy as putting on deodorant or a little more healthy than a vaccine and I’m a pro-vax dude…)

    #1222858
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    frumnotyeshivish – +1

    #1222859
    👑RebYidd23
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    FNY, vaccines are healthy. Secondhand smoke is unhealthy. And I have had immediate negative reactions to secondhand smoke.

    #1222860
    Health
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    Meno -“I went to college so I’ll respond (though I’m not sure what this has to do with college).”

    Did you take “medical ethics”? I think Not!

    #1222861
    Health
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    Yidd23 -“And Health, if you’re acknowledging the existence of medical ethics, why doesn’t it apply to you?”

    Who said it doesn’t applied to me? Who said it’s unethical? You?!?

    #1222862
    Meno
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    Did you take “medical ethics”? I think Not!

    That is true, but I did learn how to respond to questions. Apparently they don’t teach that in “medical ethics”.

    #1222863
    Health
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    Meno -“That is true, but I did learn how to respond to questions. Apparently they don’t teach that in “medical ethics”.”

    Now which question are you referring to?!?

    #1222864
    👑RebYidd23
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    I never took medical ethics in college, but in my elementary school ethics class in second grade they said that medical professionals are not supposed to harm people.

    #1222865
    Meno
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    Now which question are you referring to?!?

    I asked you one question in this thread. The thread isn’t so long, so you should be able to find it yourself.

    If you don’t want to answer it, just say so. Don’t act as if I’m the one being ambiguous.

    #1222866
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    #1222867
    Health
    Participant

    Yidd23 -“I never took medical ethics in college, but in my elementary school ethics class in second grade they said that medical professionals are not supposed to harm people.”

    Was that your highest grade – 2nd grade?

    Where did I write that I want to harm anyone? Don’t make things up!

    #1222868
    Meno
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    Where did I write that I want to harm anyone?

    Start as soon as possible!

    The sooner you start, the better it is for me!

    #1222869
    Health
    Participant

    Meno -“Now which question are you referring to?!?”

    Were you referring to this question?

    “Do you think it’s consistent with the Code of Medical Ethics for a professional in the medical field to suggest that a person should do something that is detrimental to his own health in order that the medical professional should benefit?”

    If so, what made you ask that question to me???

    #1222870
    👑RebYidd23
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    When did I say that you said you wanted to harm people? Don’t make things up.

    #1222871
    Meno
    Participant

    Were you referring to this question?

    Yes

    If so, what made you ask that question to me???

    Things that you posted earlier in the thread, but particularly this:

    I’m in the medical field. Who are you to determine what’s considered ethical or not?!?

    #1222872
    TheGoq
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    I started at age 45 not cigarettes just an occasional cigar on the porch when the weather permits.

    #1222873
    Health
    Participant

    Yidd23 -“When did I say that you said you wanted to harm people?”

    Right Here:

    “that medical professionals are not supposed to harm people.”

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