Steve@carolinabreezehvac wrote:
How about you go ahead and send a check to the family of a good friend of
mine that just died from lung cancer....never smoked a day in his life, no
one in his family smokes, and he was well enough off that he lived well, and
took good care of himself..
I figure it cost him close to a million the last couple of years to prolong
his life....


Yeah, everybody knows a story. Cancer generally requires two things to exist
for it to occur: a genetic predisposition (cancer does run in families) and an
environmental trigger. That trigger could be cigarette smoke, though it could
be other things as well. This is how some folks smoke and don't get cancer and
others don't smoke and do get cancer. Both factors need to exist.

That being said, cigarettes cause more cardiac deaths than lung cancer. If a
person has a 70% blockage of his coronary arteries, he may well be free of
symptoms. Then he fires one up: the nicotine causes vasoconstriction. He may
then have a heart attack. (My percentages are off the top of my head but I
attended enough seminars to know the general idea is correct).

So your friend spent close to a million dollars, did he? After our good friend
Gary claimed smokers cost less because they don't live as long, he now wants
access to that same kind of money to extend his smoke ridden life. This is
cheaper?

As I see it, he has the right to do what he wants right up to the point it
affects me. He's free to smoke; I just don't want anyone to smoke around me.
Nobody smokes in my house. If you come to visit, you'll leave your cigarettes
in the car.

I have a friend who smokes. He abides by my rules in my house. I don't visit
him because that's *his* house, and I don't make the rules there. Nor do I have
to suffer from his smoke (my sinuses close almost immediately).

You want to smoke? Do it elsewhere. Smoke free sections in a restaurant work
as well as pee free sections of a swimming pool. Have you ever noticed how
smokers smoke in a restaurant? They smoke up until their food arrives, put the
cigarettes out, and then fire up again after they've eaten. Never mind that 3/4
of the restaurant hasn't finished *their* food.

Do it elsewhere....




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Mortimer Schnerd, RN