[SheLion]

Honest to God, you can't win for losing when dealing with fanatics- my Dad quit smoking in his seventies, and when he died 25 years later, one of the damn Docs pronounced, "Yep, the smoking did it..."

It's too easy to just blame everything on smoking.  When "they" don't know the real truth, they just spew "Yep, it's the smoking."  They get right off the hook with that statement.  Very very sad...............

[kx9088]

Every time we're at my in-laws and my mother-in-law wakes up in the morning it sounds like she is trying to cough a lung up. The only time I've ever felt that is during and right after a bout with bronchitis. So I'm going to assume that she has chronic bronchicial infections, I'm sure that her being a moderate smoker has nothing to do with it.