Sarah Brady has lung cancer and remains addicted to cigarettes

NBC News ^ | November 27, 2001 | Tom Brokaw

[Amore]

NBC News is reporting that Sarah Brady has lung cancer because of her addiction to cigarettes. She earlier switched to low tar cigarettes on the theory they would be "healthier" but got lung cancer anyway.

[Dan from Michigan]

Whose fault it is then? Smoking is a CHOICE.

[gunshy]

Do you think she has found something more dangerous than guns?

[lowbridge]

A 5 day waiting period on cigarettes and this never would have happened.

Seriously...as much as I can't stand her, this is something I wouldn't wish on anyone (except Osama). Did they say it was fatal or was it discovered in time?

[AmishDude]

I'll bet real money that she becomes an "anti-smoking activist" before Christmas. Any takers?

[Lazamataz]

Don't anybody gloat. Don't do it. She is politically totally 100% wrong, but lets draw the line there.

'kay?

I mean, I personally am so tempted, but if *I* can control it......then YOU can.....

[StoneColdGOP]

:-)

[Amore]

I got the impression that her prognosis is not good.

[wideawake]

I wouldn't wish this on her. But I hope her successful convalescence gives her time to rethink her assaults on American freedom.

[FourPeas]

Sad. But we already knew that she wasn't too bright.

FP

[45Auto]

Perhaps she shouldn't have been so adamant about banning those "flash suppressors" that we wanted to put on cigarettes. One less commie.

[OwenKellogg]

If only those cigarettes were registered....

[AmericaUnited]

I'll also bet she wants to now ban EVERYONE ELSE from smoking.

[Lady Heron]

And she wants to take away my gun because I might hurt myself or sombody else?!?

[Dacus943]

"Sarah Brady has lung cancer and remains addicted to cigarettes"

Damn that TOBACCO INDUSTRY!!! I agree to the proposal of a Five Day Waiting Period to purchase their evil products!!!!

[AStack75]

MSNBC Article Here - It's really short

I'm sorry, but I have no sympathy for her whatsoever. I say this as a gun owner and a smoker.

[Old Professer]

I have known three people who died of lung cancer, two of them were long-term smokers and the third was addicted to watermelons; I didn't take pleasure in their passing away and I don't think that this is a topic for derision.

[Don Myers]

"NBC News is reporting that Sarah Brady has lung cancer because of her addiction to cigarettes. "

Those smoking bullets will take a person out, but they are more slow than the real thing. A lingering death of lung cancer is a bad way to go.

[CounterCounterCulture]

I mean, I personally am so tempted, but if *I* can control it......then YOU can.....

Ditto that. Biting my tongue HARD.

[garyhope]

Could it have happened to a nicer person?

My mom died from emphysema and was totally addicted to smoking. Near the end, walking around pulling a little portable oxygen tank, she said she'd rather smoke than breathe.

Funny, both my parents smoked like chimneys most of their lives and I've never smoked a day in my life except for a few of those "funny" cigarettes when I was trying to talk some girl out of her pants.

I'm not a big anti-smoking fanatic though, I don't like telling people what to do or how to live. I don't want people smoking on planes or next to me in a restaurant or in the movies, but that's about it. I hate self-righteous busy body fascists. Freedom is the most important thing in the world to me.