Play the Fiddle for Fidel.

That's right Fidel Castro gave up power to his brother, Raul Castro. Fidel made an appearance wednesday, as you can read over at CNN.Com, so he's not dead ... yet. Now I must admit I don't keep up with all the politics of exactly why it's so great that he keels over. Of course any idiot knows that it would be a good thing, just not good enough to open Cuba up to democracy.

Now what I just can't wrap my head around is, how is he still alive? Forgetting about the attempts to assasinate him, all that smoking has got to eventually lead to cancer. You really can't think of Fidel Castro without thinking about cuban cigars. There are so many pictures and videos of him smoking. People here in the US die from smoking related cancer everyday. Are cigarettes that much worse than Cuban cigars?