<div dir="auto">I had one year where I lost my mother, my uncle, my aunt, and another uncle to smoking related illnesses, plus my dad got diagnosed with lung cancer and my father in law was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. At this point, I have just one relative in my parents' generation still alive, the one who never smoked. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've never smoked. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 12:07 PM Christine Hall via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Three times I quit smoking for more than a year, yet here I am, smoking <br>
a little under a pack a day at age 68.<br>
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I started smoking at age 12, which was pretty common in the early 60s <br>
here on tobacco road where I grew up.<br>
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My mother smoked until the day she died, a couple of months back at 87. <br>
The last couple of years she could barely breath, was hooked up to <br>
oxygen most of the time, but puffing away every time she could get her <br>
hands on a cigarette.<br>
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Christine Hall<br>
Publisher & Editor<br>
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free<br>
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On 11/14/19 1:46 PM, Stephen Satchell via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
> On 11/14/19 7:16 AM, Tom Henderson via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
>> lacking only the ashtray full of spent Camels-- I quit.<br>
> <br>
> I assume you meant by this you quit smoking, not quit writing.<br>
> <br>
> If true, congratulations. I know all too many people who tried and <br>
> failed to curb the habit. One is even now hooked on Nicorette gum.<br>
> <br>
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