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It's never to late to make a difference with your life. This can mean doing something good for another human life, or changing your habits to make it possible for a better future. As long as you truly believe that it is never to late to make a difference then no man or woman should be denied medical attention because of past habits, or life styles.

First of all this question goes much deeper then, "should smokers and the obese be denied coronary artery bypass surgery?" With each asking you might get a different answer, "Should alcoholics be denied liver transplants?", "Should drug abusers be denied heart transplants?", "Should we pay to give major medical attention to those on death row?". Understanding the yes or no isn't easy to do.

However, in the case of, "Should smokers and the obese be denied coronary artery bypass surgery?" you get into a lot of different issues. First of all, one can quit smoking fairly easily (comparatively) and improve their quality of life. Second, being obese is a difficult issue all together and not just based on "stopping". Third, neither of these issues may be reason one needs a coronary artery bypass. Sometimes the person who seems healthiest, who is the right weight, who doesn't smoke, needs one two. Fourth, who should get to decide?

Changing Ones Lifestyle.
While it often takes work, no matter how old or how young a person is, they can make a change for the future. They can choose to quit smoking. They can choose to work hard and loose weight, though this one often takes help of some sort. They can stand up and work for a better tomorrow. No one should have the right to say, nope, you don't get a second chance! As long as medical knowledge can help give someone a second chance, that chance should be handed out. If over time, they waste their second chance, that is indeed their choice.

Obesity.
Obesity is a hard thing to understand. While many are stereotyped into being lazy and therefore fat, this isn't the case (at least not usually). There are so many factors that enter into the obesity question. There is foods that are eaten, activities participated in, metabolism, knowledge and understand, depression, lack of self image, and addiction. Breaking free of that isn't easy and isn't something most truly work hard at until they are faced with a life or death situation based on their weight. Still then, most don't really know what to do. Some are too stuck in their ways to do more then carefully live on. Others

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