[Gay State Conservative]

That's good news for you...hopefully your luck will hold. My parents both smoked like chimneys when I was a kid. My Mom died a horrible death at age 52...lung cancer.

And although my Dad quit when he was about 70 the damage had already been done.The last 19 years of his life were spent on oxygen,in hospitals...essentially chair-bound.

Yup,I'm an anti tobacco crusader.

[RummyChick]

I am too. I recognize that it is a strong addictive habit that is very hard to break.

However, perhaps if you want to quit you should go visit someone dying of lung cancer to see what it is like. HORRIBLE. Or go sink in a pool and lay at the bottom until you cant stand it any longer and are gasping for breath. It might be an incentive. When my family member was dying I had to take her off oxygen mask to try to adjust something. She was asleep. She woke up gasping for breath like she was drowning. It scared the heck out of me. Damn near jumped out of my skin. I can still visualize it.

Then there are others that continue smoking while on oxygen until their dying day.

And others that can chain smoke the nastiest of the nastiest cigarettes and never get lung cancer.