Smoking is a horrible killer, but so is everything else. I watched my mother eat herself to death. It too a long time for her to die, slowly getting bigger and bigger, I wished at the time that she would just smoke more cigarettes at least it would keep the food out of her mouth.
So few people smoke anymore that in the last five years, I have seen some pretty horrible deaths of young people, from cancer, who never smoked, most never drank either. I know some really old people in the assisted living center, 70s 80s and even 90 year old chain puffing and tossing back shooters. What's up with that!
I took a day off yesterday to go to my ex-husband's house to help clean it out. He was 66 years old, didn't smoke or drink. In the whole house there wasn't a single medication. He was active and athletic. He dropped dead, dropped like a stone. His heart just stopped beating. I cannot tell you all the effect this had on me. One day he's getting a new car, a new toaster and new chair pillows, the next day, pillows still in the bag, toaster with the sticker on it and car contract still on the front seat, the next day, the next morning dead. In a week people are pawing through your personal possessions.
I'm sorry that smoking/cancer deaths aren't that frightening, not as frightening as the brest cancer, brain cancer deaths of life long non-smokers, that's something you can't fight.
