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Thorin just liked treasure and treated it all as his own. (Which it was, pretty much.) There's no 'dragon sickness'- just a love of the material.

Who could possibly stuff a whole block into their face? Be realistic.

The only quote we have from the Hobbit on Smaug's corpse said they could see his bones from the surface- no scales. I presume they rotted away.