Personally if the choice is living my life without doing anything dangerous, or dying a couple of years earlier, I will happily start digging my grave. Living without joy isn't living.
I could agree with this if the debated subject wasn't cigarettes. I never advocated living life with minimal
risk; risk means a
possibility of loss or injury. I am an avid skier; there is inherent risk when skiing, but it's not like every time I go to the mountain I come back with a disease or injury. Smoking is different. It's a guarantee that it affects your health in a negative way. That's not
risk, that's
idiocy.
I sincerely hope your comment, "living without joy isn't living", was not about smoking habits. If that's your form of joy, you live a very sad life. I will, however, give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you meant something else.