I've been smoking for 46 years, and I'm pretty sure I can still whip anybody's a$$ that has a problem with it. The fallback position is I'll just shoot the troublemaker.
What do I have to lose? My Freedom? HA!!!
You are lucky. My dad died at the young age of 41 due to a massive heart attack and he also suffered with emphysema for years. His two pack a day habit wasn't kind to him. My grandmother (his mother) made it to 73, had quadruple bypass surgery and a pacemaker. Another relative had to use that speaking device to talk due to throat surgery. If you ask my sister who is the president of the United States she will say George W. Bush. You see he was the President when she had a massive brain aneurysm which wiped out her short-term memory. I do feel guilty about thinking that it would have been better if she had died.
On the positive smoking front, my other grandmother (mothers side of the family) smoked for years, but quit a while ago. She is closer to 100 than 90. Genetics must play a part.
I used to smoke too, but quit very easily on 10/02/1980. Anyone can quit if they really want to. If you want to smoke I don't care and I do wish you luck. Some people do live a long time as a smoker.
The downside is that smokers are an easy target for sin taxes. Now they're coming after junk food. I wonder what will be next.
I’ve been smoking for over 60 years.
Turned 80 last September——but I’ll probably still die young because that’s what the “experts” say. :-)
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