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My dad smoked from like age 11, I think, but he never got lung cancer. He did get colon cancer. And I'll never forget from working as a nurse's aide in a nursing home, how this one poor lady suffered so so bad trying to catch her breath from emphysema due to smoking. I've never seen anyone suffer so bad and that really hurt me to see her go through that to the end, struggling to get her breath.
ElwoodBlues · M
@thisguy20 Some folks have studied the 0.017% of people who live to more than 100. They seem to have won the genetic lottery, inheriting a collection of genes that help protect them cancer and the kind of arterial disease that causes heart attacks and strokes. It's great that your uncle wo genetic lottery, would you really want to roll the dice and see if you're in that lucky 0.017%?
[b]https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/why-do-people-live-to-100-and-how/[/b]
[b]https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/why-do-people-live-to-100-and-how/[/b]
bijouxbroussard · F
I will never understand that. Several years ago, I was sitting at a friend’s bedside; she had lung cancer and after they operated they’d found it had spread too much to treat…she asked us to get her a cigarette.
"C’mon guys, I won’t be any less dead if you don’t !” Someone went out and got one for her.
Another friend watched the door, she took a puff
and slipped away.
"C’mon guys, I won’t be any less dead if you don’t !” Someone went out and got one for her.
Another friend watched the door, she took a puff
and slipped away.
FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, F
@bijouxbroussard I brought cigarettes to a friend who was dying with emphysema upon request. He was homebound due to illness but still in his right mind. If he needed to hurry himself along, I think that was valid. Horrible death, though.
originnone · 61-69, M
@bijouxbroussard My brother (the starving artist) and my beloved aunt (like my grandmother) both smoked like chimneys and died of lung cancer.....honestly makes me wonder what's so bad about putting a gun to my head.....just sayin'
FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, F
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ElwoodBlues · M
Not to be too harsh, but could this be nature's way of telling you you're on the wrong side of natural selection?
[quote] [b]Tobacco-Related Mortality[/b]
Cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the United States each year.1,6 Cigarette smoking is estimated to cause the following:1
* More than 480,000 deaths annually (including deaths from secondhand smoke)
* 278,544 deaths annually among men (including deaths from secondhand smoke)
* 201,773 deaths annually among women (including deaths from secondhand smoke) [/quote]
[b]https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/tobacco_related_mortality/index.htm[/b]
[quote] [b]Tobacco-Related Mortality[/b]
Cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the United States each year.1,6 Cigarette smoking is estimated to cause the following:1
* More than 480,000 deaths annually (including deaths from secondhand smoke)
* 278,544 deaths annually among men (including deaths from secondhand smoke)
* 201,773 deaths annually among women (including deaths from secondhand smoke) [/quote]
[b]https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/tobacco_related_mortality/index.htm[/b]
