Still More Reasons To Smoke

Also? Quitting smoking appears to increase your risk of developing diabetes: “Smokers are on average 30 per cent more likely than non-smokers to develop type 2 or adult-onset diabetes. Now a study of 10,892 adults over 10 years has found that, in the first six years after giving up, former smokers are 70 per cent more likely than non-smokers to develop the disease.” Good Lord, next they’re going to tell us that smoking actually cures certain kinds of cancers. I’m gonna light up two at the same time right now!