[gov_bean_ counter]

My father and Uncle also a life long smokers died from COPD. It truly is a horrible way to die. What people don't seem to understand is that although they eventually do drown the death is slow. Kidney failure, muscle atrophy, etc. The body just withers away. Very sad.

[Jorge]

My father and Uncle also a life long smokers died from COPD. It truly is a horrible way to die. What people don't seem to understand is that although they eventually do drown the death is slow.

Please don't interupt the denial and jokes here with a dose of reality.

I smoked for 30 years and thank God that I quit 7 years ago. I feel like a new man.

[Quix]

The fact that no one enjoys the feeling of drowning . . . I've never met anyone who did. Never.

And feeling like you're drowning second after second; minute after minute; week in, week out for months . . . if not a few years . . . what torture.

But even that prospect is . . .

no biggy, my right. I want to be selfish!