OK, sure, it's Friday so I'll be having a cigar today. But I certainly don't hold this day's designation against the WHO. No one can deny that we'd all be, in the aggregate, in better health now and into the future without tobacco. I rationalize my behavior by emphasizing to myself that I've never smoked cigarettes and I don't inhale, so my health risks, although higher than the complete abstainers, aren't SO MUCH higher...! Still, I can't escape the fact that last weekend was the one year anniversary of the passing of my mom, a life-long smoker. She had half a lung removed in '05, radiation treatment shriveled up half of her other lung in '07, yet she still smoked, even while on oxygen, until the very end. I can't know for sure, but I do believe that if it wasn't for her tobacco use, she'd still be with us. On second thought, maybe I'll forego that cigar just for today...