Grapple: That's why I just smoke cloves... kill the lung tissue faster.

/actually, I quit years ago and did smoke menthols. :(

Smoked menthols from when I was 13 and my Salem smoking grandfather moved in with us. Finally quit about 5 1/2 years ago (just turned 39). Best thing about smoking menthols was that when you were out of smokes you could bum a non menthol from someone else (always kept Hall's mints in my pocket) but non menthol smokers never wanted to bum one off of you.

Cigarette makers from the south. Menthol cigarettes more dangerous. It's all making sense to me now.....

And, if you live within 100 miles of a tobacco farm, you have a 20% higher risk of cancer.

If you eat vegetables grown in land once used to grow tobacco, you'll have a 30% higher risk of cancer.

If you lean on the FENCE of a tobacco farm, you have a 40% greater chance of getting skin cancer.

If you are or were a trucker hauling processed tobacco leafs to the factories, even if you never smoked, well, buddy, you're just dead and don't know it.

Tobacco: more lethal than plutonium. More contagious than small pox. More insidious than lead poisoning. More addictive than coke or crack.

That's why I just smoke cloves... kill the lung tissue faster.

/actually, I quit years ago and did smoke menthols. :(

Or, another equally-plausible conclusion that can be drawn from the same data: Black people who smoke are twice as likely to have strokes as white people who smoke.