The strange thing is that my father, who smoked but stopped around 50, died of throat cancer at the age of 62.
My mother, who has smoked a pack a day for her entire adult life, is 83 and going pretty strong.It's mind boggling. My one grandmother never smoked..........dead at 42 full of cancer. My other grandmother smoked 3 packs of unfiltered Camels a day and lived to be 86! Go figure.