There’s a guy who comes into town 2 or 3 times a week, he’s lost a leg and is in a wheelchair. His wife “parks” him outside my shop and he sits there having a smoke (or two or three) while his wife goes into the indoor shopping centre and does her shopping. One day I got chatting to him and he told me the doctors told him that the health issues that led him to lose his leg were smoking-related, but he didn’t believe them, that all this scare-mongering about smoking is a conspiracy to deprive the working class of their small pleasures in life.
I haven’t seen him or his wife for a few weeks.
Today they both came into town, as usual she “parked” him and he smoked while she went shopping. He’s lost his second leg.
I will never understand why people still keep smoking even when their health is compromised. :(