Posted on 01/05/2010 3:28:28 PM PST by neverdem
CDC, “Annual Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Productivity Losses — United States 2000-2004,” MMWR 57(45), November 14, 2008 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5745a3.htm. See also, California EPA, Proposed Identification of Environmental Tobacco Smoke as a Toxic Air Contaminant, June 24, 2005, http://repositories.cdlib.org/tc/surveys/CALEPA2005C/. Smoking-caused disease. CDC, “Cigarette Smoking-Attributable Morbidity – United States, 2000” MMWR 52(35): 842-844, September 5, 2003. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5235.pdf. See, also, U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), “CDC’s April 2002 Report on Smoking: Estimates of Selected Health Consequences of Cigarette Smoking Were Reasonable,” letter to U.S. Rep. Richard Burr, July 16, 2003, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03942r.pdf.
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It's a risk factor, not the cause. I'm sorry to read about your parents.
Just look at photos of Bette Davis when she was old as an example.
Both of my maternal grandparents died of emphyesema. My bio mother has it now. Not a good way to go.
Glad you were able to give up smoking. I watched my parents, all their siblings, my husbands parents and their siblings all die from smoking related diseases. They were all WW2 generation folks and they smoked. I hope you are able to escape COPD, it is a nasty way to go.
It is my opinion that smoking does cause cancer, it just doesn’t cause it in everyone who smokes. There are other factors involved, smoking is one.
Highly disingenuous. Over 95% of all smokers start as kids. By the time they become adults they are addicted and can't quit.
good one........LOL
The democrats went after the tobacco companies because 70-80% of their donations went to republicans.....
Your right on that score, I have been a smoker since I was 13 and am celebrating my 71st birthday this month...So far no COPD or COLD or any other breathing problems except in summer doing lots of outside work in the flower gardens..
But I do think genetics can influence weather you develop such problems....My father smoked until the age of 50 and quite because of asthma....he lived to be 85 and because he once smoked his death would be included in smokers death... So some of the literature is just plain false...
I will be quitting when my loose tobacco runs out, got a freezer full and will not give the GD government any more taxes. Thats my motivator for quitting...
But no one knows what the future holds....
I have no idea whether your pipe stinks, or what it’s done to your teeth. You obviously aren’t addicted, and it probably isn’t costing you much money.
Which raises the question: What on Earth makes you think I was talking about you?
As for my perspective, my wife had to watch her father smoke himself to death (emphysema). It was a God-awful, ugly, painful death and he basically worked his wife into the grave while he was at it. She was so busy taking care of him that she ignored her own “back problems” until her kidneys failed because it turns out she had cervical cancer. She looked like a concentration camp survivor for the last nine months of her life and died just before her 62nd birthday.
My wife got to bury both of them three years ago last month, and has nightmares about it almost every night. So yes, I am a tad biased when it comes to tobacco. Best of luck with your harmless hobby.
I buried both of my parents, too. It happens, people die, parents tend to die before their children. My Mom never smoked yet she still died.
I’m sorry for your loss, your wife’s loss. Burying one’s parents, at least for me, is something that was very difficult even though it’s the natural order of things. It’s been 10 years since I buried my Dad and 3 since I buried my Mom.
Anecdotal info aside, people die. Even healthy people, who never smoked, always ate nutritional meals, exercised daily...dying is a part of life, the last part for sure.
I doubt your FIL “smoked himself to death” but understand that your MIL was “so busy taking care of him that she ignored her own back problems...” since it’s usually what primary caregivers do...they ignore their own stuff while taking care of loved ones.
My Dad smoked 3 packs a day for as long as I can recall. He ate all the wrong foods, and loved his sweets...especially donuts and TastyKake Lemon pies. He fought in WWII and survived for 5 decades after that...he survived the Great Depression, WWII, raised a bunch of kids, was a firefighter. So he smoked cigarettes. I’d never slam his life or his memory because of what he ate or smoked or drank or what he did for a living.
My mother died 3 years ago, at 85. She never smoked, rarely drank alcohol, ate a healthy diet other than those years during the Great Depression when she barely ate, and was active physically, mentally, etc.
Both of my parents deaths were quite peaceful regardless of what ravaged their bodies.
Spare me the sanctimonious slight of hand that it’s only an ADULT problem.
A lot of money in the anti-smoking industry, and I won't argue that even without cancer risk it doesn't do your lungs any great favors...
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