Glad you survived.
My dad was a heavy smoker until he started coughing up blood. There was
NO doubt that he wouldn't be smoking much longer. Fortunately he made
the choice to stop versus having it made. He's 80 years old now and
doesn't even like to be near smokers anymore. Hopefully you'll feel the
same way when you're 80. My smoking grandparents didn't live past their
early sixties. My non-smoking grandparents lived and were doing quite
well up into their nineties. One of my aunts blew herself up when her
cigarette got too close to the oxygen she had to have to breath.
Certain "man made pollutants" can trigger pretty severe asthma in me,
but I have no allergies to anything natural other than poison oak.
Smoking is impossible for me.
Sorry for the off topic sermon ...
-jeff
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From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Filthy, stinking smokers
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> Then came the oral cancer in 1999, a result, I am told, of 40+
> years of smoking, plus three or four years ignoring the symptoms.
> The surgery was most unpleasant, particularly since I had to
> endure five days of hospitalization when I was unable to speak a
> word because of all the crap in my mouth. Being a very verbal
> sort, that was all but unbearable. I couldn't write on my little
> board fast enough to express one tenth of my contempt for the
> entire process. The Demerol was nice, though! :-)
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> By the way, if I make to 80, I'm going to start smoking again. My
> wife says I may.
>
> Walt
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