Re: Smoking

On May 16, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Ellen Rawson wrote:

> My father did not die of lung cancer, but his cardiologist was definite that smoking certainly did not help his heart disease, and he died from that.

The undignified way in which the members of my family have shuffled off has made me realize that we've pretty much picked the short straws for unpleasant smoker deaths. Only one of them went quickly from a heart attack. There was a good deal of envy about that.