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Ex-Marlboro man dies from smoking-related disease
Yahoo News ^ | 1/27/2014 | DAISY NGUYEN

Posted on 01/27/2014 11:30:22 AM PST by Beave Meister

Edited on 01/27/2014 11:37:03 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

LOS ANGELES (AP)

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: cigarettes; copd; ericlawson; health; marlboro; marlboroman; pufflist; smoking
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To: Beave Meister
Lawson was also survived by six children, 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

As an ex-smoker I remember a cigarette and coffee, a cigarette and a beer and a cigarette after sex.

21 posted on 01/27/2014 11:51:32 AM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Hey if you can afford it, more power to ya!


22 posted on 01/27/2014 11:51:39 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

“Tobacco grown for ones own use isn’t taxed.”

Yet


23 posted on 01/27/2014 11:52:06 AM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: smoothsailing

I liked him, but never liked Marlboros.


24 posted on 01/27/2014 11:53:12 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: nascarnation

Yes..it is an aweful way to die slowly and if it were not for medical intervention of oxygen, it would be a much quicker death by not breathing slow slow drowning type of death.


25 posted on 01/27/2014 11:56:48 AM PST by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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To: nascarnation

It is getting expensive, no doubt about that!!


26 posted on 01/27/2014 11:57:27 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Beave Meister

27 posted on 01/27/2014 12:01:03 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Beave Meister
Can't think of many benefits of smoking.....

Me neither, just one - stress relief.


28 posted on 01/27/2014 12:02:26 PM PST by caveat emptor (!)
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To: JRandomFreeper

“Tobacco grown for ones own use isn’t taxed. “

I knew a guy in college whose dad had been growing his own tobacco since the ‘70’s. He thought it was too pricy at .50/pack. Apparently, it’s not difficult.


29 posted on 01/27/2014 12:08:33 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Beave Meister

72 years old. Nothing tragic about that. Maybe he would have lived a few years longer if he didn’t smoke but it can’t be said he didn’t have a full life.


30 posted on 01/27/2014 12:10:39 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Beave Meister

“Can’t think of many benefits of smoking.....”

Staying awake on sentry duty comes to mind.


31 posted on 01/27/2014 12:11:59 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Beave Meister
Can't think of many benefits of smoking.....

It is calming. Would you be one of the folks that wanted them out of rations during WWII?

32 posted on 01/27/2014 12:16:28 PM PST by xone
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To: Uncle Miltie

79 here in Japan for men - 86 for women .


33 posted on 01/27/2014 12:20:58 PM PST by sushiman
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To: Buckeye McFrog
When he passed away at age 94.....

My grandfather enjoyed his Scotch. Not to excess, he just liked a scotch or two in the evening.

Many, many years ago, his doc told him to quit drinking. Grandpa's response? He fired the doc, on the spot. "What did he think it would do, stunt my growth?", he said, approximately.

Grandpa lived to the ripe old age of 87, and enjoyed his scotch more-or-less right up to the end. :-)

34 posted on 01/27/2014 12:25:13 PM PST by wbill
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To: cll

If you make it to 72, your actuarial life expectancy is somewhere in the mid 80’s.

Besides that COPD is a horrible way to go, in some ways as bad as going with cancer.


35 posted on 01/27/2014 12:26:30 PM PST by dangerdoc (I don't think you should be forced to make the same decision I did even if I know I'm right.)
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To: Starstruck

What, no cigarette after a good meal?!


36 posted on 01/27/2014 12:26:38 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: smoothsailing

No wonder he never quit!


37 posted on 01/27/2014 12:27:30 PM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: Beave Meister
Can't think of many benefits of smoking.....

How about the ingestion of nicotine, an extraordinarily potent and beneficial anti-viral chemical?

Could the threatening of the multi-gajillion dollar medical industry have absolutely anything to do with the demonization of tobacco? Let alone the stimulating and calming effect on people that politicians want to be stupified and anxious? Let alone the fact that there are literally hundreds of chemicals, a great many of them carcinogenic, in tobacco additives and tobacco paper which are completely uninvestigated because those additives are considered "trade secrets"?

It's not the tobacco and it's not the nicotine that kills you. They keep you awake, calm and free from many viruses and other nasty bugs.

It's the additives.

38 posted on 01/27/2014 12:32:30 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Watch out for hydrogen hydroxide too. It’ll get you.


39 posted on 01/27/2014 12:34:56 PM PST by Professional Engineer (I am not cynical. /s)
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To: Beave Meister

No, not many benefits of smoking.

But the coverage of THIS death, i.e., it’s plastered all over Facebook, is ‘aha!” He smoked, he promoted smoking, he deserved to die. 72 is not an unusually young age to die.

Would the same finger-wagers DARE to have a similar reaction to a gay who died of AIDS? Most AIDS deaths are considerably younger than 72 and are also the result of bad behavioral choices.


40 posted on 01/27/2014 12:35:20 PM PST by EDINVA ( m)
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