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DAMN! This brilliant woman - a lifelong friend of the family is doomed. Cancer has spread everywhere - she doesn't have long to live. Luckily she was feeling pretty good at the time and has been able to wrap things up in her life, see the people she needs to see etc... And she has a great attitude - she's full of smiles and is a pleasure to be around.
but DAMN! I used to tease her as the last of my people who was a full time smoker - sometimes I went a little too far and had to later apologize for being insensitive.
It just makes me so sad. I saw her over the holiday - may not ever see her again.
Quit smoking! Do it for the people you love if you can't for it for yourself.
I managed to quit in my 40s - hope that was early enough...
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Every friend and relative that I've ever known who smoked regularly has died of lung cancer, some of them quite young (i.e. in their 40s). The luckiest quit in her 40s and then made it to her early 80s before succumbing.
There was an excuse for folks back in the 1950s and earlier to smoke...it wasn't yet proven that smoking killed you. Now that there's no doubt about it I am completely puzzled as to why people smoke. It's a death sentence and lung cancer is one of the most awful ways to die. They don't call cigarettes coffin nails for nothing!
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Sorry to hear of it and such a shame. I pray she's around longer than expected...
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Sorry to hear about your friend.
I had a friend who died a couple of years ago due to complications from smoking. She probably smoked two packs a day. Last year another friend had a heart attack that was attributed to smoking also and she's still smoking like a chimney.
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I was fortunate to quit smoking a long time ago. Back in 1983.
I have some neighbors who smoke. It's an extended family living together. There's a young married couple with very young kids. They both smoke. The woman's mother smokes. The Grandmother still smokes, and she's on oxygen.
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hal wrote:
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...I am completely puzzled as to why people smoke.
Addiction.
"Nicotine is highly addictive, comparable to heroin or cocaine."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#R..._disorders
AND circumstance... if all of your friends smoke... and drink... and socialize in bars... you will have a VERY hard time kicking the habit. You will have to walk away from your friends for a good long time, you'll have to quit drinking and you'll have to stop going to bars.
BUT even then, it can still be done.
I know several people that have quit hard drugs but could not quit nicotine
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How about someone who was operated on for throat cancer, lost most of his voice, but went right back to smoking when he could.
