Merry Christmas! :^D
Posted on 12/25/2004 10:37:36 AM PST by SheLion
Some one has been caught by their own lies with that one.
If smoking is such a risk and a burden at the same time, why did I cack from heart issues 15 years after quiting?
I can guarantee that IF I were to be smoking at the time of my demise that smoking would have been labeled as the cause of it.
Merry Christmas! :^D
Anyone who's familiar with large retirement communities will notice that very few of them smoke.
Smoking tends to kill people off before they become very old.
And the few who do smoke and live to a fairly old age usually suffer from smoking related problems. Emphysema is one of the most horrible conditions smokers live with (if they don't die from cancer or heart attacks first).
I quit at 45 after 30 years of smoking. The benefits to my health and life in general are well worth it. It's probably the best thing I ever did for myself.
Sounds like another scam to get doctors to prescribe more drugs to "help" people quit (and have mediscare pay big bucks for them)-welbutrin is a common one used-unfortunately sometimes instead of making someone feel happy, it causes them to do violence-I worked with a woman who wrecked the business owner's office and tried to brain him with a lamp while she was taking the stuff. And let's not forget the nanny state "counseling" that some airhead social worker will get paid by mediscare for. Hmmm-maybe I should dust off the credentials and degree I spent a lot of money and time getting...
LOL!!!
Merry Christmas.
Great cartoon. LOL
I've read (though not verified) that the government of the Czech Republic actually encourages smoking for this very reason.
I'm very glad that was the right choice for you, but I don't think one size fits all. My grandfather was 91 when he died, my grandmother 104 when she passed. They both smoked WAY over a pack a day to the day they died with no prior illnesses except the fact that the human body and mind is apparently not made to last much longer than that. My dad (their son) died of a heart attack at 75. He never smoked.
Merry Christmas, Gabz!
Merry Christmas from the good Madame and I, honey.
God almighty,will they ever quit. The statistics about the death of the elderly from smoking scares me to death.It is frightening beyond words.LOL
As soon as I can go I will take their free quit-smoking course,just for laughs.. I might as well get something out of Medicare---I'm not costing them much otherwise,too healthy.What a waste of taxpayers money.
I had a superb Christmas,the Denver and New York kids were home so I saw all my grandchildren,ate like a pig,and laughed all week.
God is good.
Is Annie your kittie? Adorable!
When it comes to smoking being an unhealthy habit that killed hundreds of thousands of people a year, one size does fit all.
A person can drink and drive many times and dodge the bullet when it comes to avoiding a deadly accident or arrest. That doesn't make it safe.
The fact that you or I happen to know some people who smoked and lived to old age, and some people who didn't smoke who died young, doesn't change that fact.
Isn't this ridiculous??
Merry Christmas, Gabz. Hope Santa was good to you!!!
They think we are so stupid out here, EGPWS! Well, they can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but they can't fool all of the people ALL of the time.
I have a half a notion to write someone about this.
Merry Christmas Meek!!!! Hope Santa was good to YOU too!!!!
Same here. My one grandmother smoked 3 packs of unfiltered Camels a day and lived to be 86. Died of old age.
My other grandmother died at age 42, full of cancer. Never smoked a day in her life.
Jorge is WAY off base here.
Hope Santa was good to you and the Misses, Honey Bear!
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