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I've had Sram, Campag and Shimano - the only lever that I've not got on with are the old Sora ones with the pathetic thumbshift - even then I still put in a crap load of miles on them without my hands falling off.
I've slowly come to the conclusion that I could probably just get on with anything and that it doesn't really matter for the majority of people. You only need to worry about lever shape if you have unusually large or small hands.
Most of the time here - people's preference for one lever/group or another (for whatever reason they give) is solely down to post-rationalising a purchase. This seems especially prevalent in Campag users as there are fewer practical reasons to stick with it, even though it's quite nice.
tl;dr - buy whatever you want. It doesn't make as much difference as everyone thinks it does.