This article really touched me. A male in my family smokes and every time I tell him how bad it is for him, he calls me an ignorant teenager, although he's not much older. I tell him that I don't want him to get cancer, that he could do so much with his life besides smoke all the time, but he just won't listen. He just keeps telling me he'll be fine, that disease can't touch him. I seem to know better than he about his risk of getting cancer.

Your article recognizes the fact that people do die from smoking every day. He should read it; it might finally open his eyes to the truth. Thank you for publishing it.