It is up to each and every individual member, lurker or any smoker who never has heard of Freedom or WhyQuit, to tell himself or herself whether or not he or she should or should not smoke. As a site we can make it clear that for health, economic, social, professional, and a host of other reasons it makes no sense to smoke. Our posting members can make it perfectly clear that quitting is possible and show how they get through lifes trials and tribulations without smoking. But no one here can make any one else here smoke or not smoke.
Smoking is an individual choice that each and every person needs to make on his or her own. The one thing we want to do is make sure that every person reading here understands what their choices are. The choices for an addicted smoker are that he or she can smoke nothing or he or she can smoke everything, and thus have to accept all of the risks and complications that go with smoking everything. There is no inbetween.
If you can get an ex-smoker to recognize this concept you are very likely going to help him or her realize that his or her choice will always be to never take another puff!
Joel