[irishjuggler]

a wheelchair-bound and oxygen-tank-dependent 86-year-old longtime smoker at a committee hearing this week.

You know, it's unfortunate for this gal that she has health problems, but as a non-smoker, I can only hope I'll be so lucky as to make it to 86. I know many non-smokers who have left us long before 86. There's sort of this crazy delusion out there that if tobacco didn't exist, everyone would be out there turning cartwheels at 110.

[rktman]

I know many smokers who never had an issue. Ban the cigs but elevate weed. Great idear huh? Second hand smoke is about as dangerous as second hand fa**ts. Just don’t light ‘em. ;>}

[autumnraine]

Yep. My non-smoking mom died from cancer at 52. I would give my left arm to have her another 44 years.

[autumnraine]

Yep. My non-smoking mom died from cancer at 52. I would give my left arm to have her another 44 years.

***************Math sucks. 34 years.

[berdie]

Thank you. I was trying to think of a tactful way to say what you did...very tactfully.