Re: Smoking

--- On Wed, 5/16/12, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3@ckt.net> wrote:
>
> And the only "sick" I've been so far, at age 68, was one
> little tumor under my ear (that started well before I
> smoked), one recurrence of the same one, and a gall bladder
> shot (of course, that was my fault too, being fat, so they
> probably should raise the taxes on food).  Oh, and
> Clinical Depression, but I hear there's an antidepressant
> (not nicotine) in tobacco smoke, so that probably _helped_,
> before I got onto the antidepressant drugs.

You may be very lucky.

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.

Back when Denver banned smoking indoors, a friend of mine, a government worker, told the story of a colleague who was upset at having to go outside to smoke. However, my friend had just buried her father, a long-term smoker, who had died of emphysema. She didn't have any sympathy whatsoever for her colleague.

Consider yourself fortunate to be 68 and not to have suffered any ill effects from smoking nor any major illnesses.

Ellen

PS The UK government actually is looking at a tax on fatty foods, which wouldn't bother me at all. Denmark already has one.