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ombined, three Red Hook buddies have smoked cigarettes for nearly 140 years, and two of them are still lighting up. Averaging a pack or more a day each, that's more than a million cigarettes. So it's no wonder the three pals — Herbert Garnett, 65, Colie Dunbar, 60, and Valentin Morales, 71 — recently decided they should all get their lungs examined. "A lot of smokers fear going to the doctor because they fear something will be wrong. But a test can help before things get too bad," said Garnett, who quit smoking in 1996. "The doctor said if I...