My girlfriend has threatened to break up with me several times now unless I cut down to a pack a week. I’m not addicted but it does help me get through my day. I keep trying to tell her that but she doesn’t believe me and keeps saying that it’s actually bad. I want to prove to my girlfriend that smoking cigarettes is actually good for you so that she can stop judging me over it but I can’t find any info online to back that up. Can anyone help me find some resources that list the health benefits of cigarettes? Like how nicotine kills germs or anything like that?

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    Mostly, it helps you look cool - very cool. Cool and potentially cancerous, but, cool nonetheless.

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      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.

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        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:

        • Humphrey Bogart
        • Spencer Tracy
        • Sammy Davis Jr
        • Gary Cooper
        • Walt Disney
        • Groucho Marx
        • George Harrison
        • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
        • Clark Gable
        • Lucille Ball
        • Desi Arnaz
        • Lana Turner
        • Robert Mitchum
        • Babe Ruth
        • Joe DiMaggio
        • Dean Martin
        • Betty Grable
        • Yul Brynner
        • Buster Keaton
        • Ed Sullivan
        • All 4 actors who portrayed the Marlboro Man
        • Nat King Cole
        • Tallulah Bankhead
        • Johnny Carson
        • Duke Ellington
        • King Edward VIII
        • King George VI
        • Michael Landon
        • Lemmy Kilmister
        • Andy Kaufman
        • Vincent Price
        • Jean-Paul Sartre
        • Rod Serling