On 09/20/2014 05:06 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:
"Lew Hodgett" wrote in
news:541ccda1$0$41770$c3e8da3 :

My ex wife turned 77 the first week of August.

The first week of September she died in her sleep of congestive
heart failure and COPD directly attributed to 50+ years of smoking.

She had finally quit smoking about 12 years ago.

My condolences, Lew.

My older brother started smoking when he was about 16 or 17 --
unfiltered Lucky Strikes -- and continued until he was 46, when he
finally quit. He was diagnosed with cancer about three months before
his 48th birthday, and told he might have only six *weeks*. He held
on for about seven months before he passed.

GOD DAMN TOBACCO.

I couldn't agree more. And God damn the tobacco companies, too, for
continuing to market this killer weed.

I agree with all of the emotion and the facts about tobacco but does anyone
here realize the percentage of lung cancer patients who have never smoke or
have only smoked for a very short few years? Lung cancer is much bigger
than smoking. Spend a bit of time on the Lungevity web site and learn a bit
about it. This is a much bigger monster than can simply be blamed on
smoking.

For sure!

My next older brother just passed away from lung cancer at 70. Never
smoked, but work construction all his life doing demo and remodels. We
both worked for our dad in the 60's and we never heard of dust masks or
the like. Many jobs remodelling schools, barracks etc. I haven't work
construction since then (except for adding on to one house and building
another), but I have a non progressive case of scaring of the lungs. I
sure as hell wear a dust mask in the shop now when doing any dust
raising work.


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