You're a lucky man to be doing that dancing. Maybe you're one of the lucky few who has some genetic resistance to cancer. In Bird's family, her mom and grandpa were/are the same way as far as cancer resistance goes. Grandpa lived to be 93 after a long life with various types of tobacco. He had emphysema at the end, though, and her mom, who smoked for 27 years, still developed chronic pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure even 20 years after quitting. They haven't had cancer, but they're sure not winning any pulmonary health contests.

I've not known anyone yet that it hasn't caught up with in some miserably unpleasant way or another. I know how that goes, though. I had a patient tell me, "Well, doc, if I gave up all the things that made it possible to live to be 100, my life really wouldn't be worth living that long."