Thanks for the kind words, Tallulah. Props to you, too, my friend!

My mom luckily stopped smoking about 20 years ago. And all was going fine until just last year, when she got emphysema anyway. That caught us all by surprise. We didn't know the disease could come on years later like that, especially after two smoke-free decades. Luckily, they caught it early and it's not too bad. But she doesn't take her medicines or use her inhalers like she's supposed to. Plus she has sleep apnea, which doesn't help things. My mom's like an irresponsible kid when it comes to her health. She's why I'm so compulsive about my own health. I plan to live to be 120. So I can preach to all my generations of grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren about the evils of cigarette smoking . . .

You know what it was that persuaded my mom to quit smoking? A friend of hers died of emphysema and she saw what the friend went through there at the end in the hospital. I truly think that'd be an effective deterrent to lots of people. Someone ought to make short videos of people with end-stage emphysema and lung cancer and put those on the Web. We'd make some headway with that sort of in-your-face information.
birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on . Knowledge is contagious Tobbaco kills 20 times more people than murder. BULLSHIT. i know that like a dude gets killed at least every minute AT LEAST. what do you all think about this. Rating: 5