No way...
- Watched my paternal grandfather die a slow, miserable emphysema-related death DECADES after he had quit smoking.
- Watched my maternal grandmother die a slow, miserable emphysema-related death.
- My father didn't die from emphysema but his huge smoking habit exacerbated his heart disease and played a huge role in why his body was not able to fight off the cancer that killed him.
- Watched my aunt who never smoked a day in her life die from lung cancer.
My conclusion: not being able to breath and suffocating to death because of it is a scary, painful, miserable way to die. Even though it can happen to non-smokers, I'm not taking any chances!
p.s. I'm not saying this to offend any of you who are smokers it's just that smoking has had a huge impact on my life and the early loss of my loved ones so I feel very strongly about it.