If you don't already smoke, don't take it up. If you are already a smoker, you your best to stop.

The ONLY thing that can reliably reduce the possibility of cancer is not smoking. Everything else, diet or lifestyle, is trivial and has almost no effect on cancer.

So, at the risk of repeating myself, if you don't smoke, don't start. If you are already a smoker, STOP.

I smoked for over 20 years. I'm fortunate I was able to quit when I was 39- seven years ago. It ranks up there in the top five hardest things I've ever done, and many people who have quit rank it as #1.

Long before the Surgeon General's report of 1964 cigarettes were understood to be very bad for you, and were even called cancer sticks. Almost no one has ever loved that first cigarette. People have to work at getting hooked. Which makes smoking even more unfathomable to me.

It is beyond excellent that you quit.

I smoke pipe tobacco and have a small collection of pipes. Nowhere near the cancer risk of cigarettes and I don't do it enough to get addicted. Sometimes I will go for months without it.