| Long ago I had a friend and she was a | | | | |
| girl.(not an official Girlfriend). | | | | My dad got lung cancer. |
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| Her mom smoked and worked during the day so | | | | After he got lung cancer he visited me; he |
| daughter used to pinch her smokes and shared | | | | was a pathetic skin over bones man now, |
| them with me. Both my parents smoked as well. | | | | wearing a corduroy suit, BUT STILL SMOKING IN |
| | | | MY GARAGE. |
| So off and on I got used to smoking; my | | | | |
| smoking got a real boost when I became a | | | | My brother's wife has breast cancer; my |
| sailor at the age of 17, because you could | | | | brother still smokes cigars. |
| buy cigarettes tax-free when you were outside | | | | |
| territorial waters. | | | | I started having coughing spells at night and |
| | | | the vision in my left eye was deteriorating. |
| Over time I started smoking more and more | | | | |
| cigarettes and had to get up a couple of | | | | Me quitting smoking? Impossible- I have no |
| times a night to have another nicotine fix. | | | | willpower. |
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| Life without cigarettes was just not | | | | Because I knew I could not quit I never even |
| imaginable. | | | | bothered to try. |
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| Going on an airline trip was sheer torture | | | | So after a whole lifetime of smoking I was |
| because I could not smoke for a couple of | | | | going to die of lung cancer too. |
| hours. | | | | |
| | | | However, I managed to quit by using |
| We flew to Singapore once and I had a couple | | | | self-hypnosis. |
| of smokes in the washroom in spite of the | | | | |
| fact that airplanes were already putting | | | | On September 13, 2002 at 3 PM I took my last |
| people in jail for smoking. | | | | drag and exhaled it through a Kleenex. |
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| Over the years half of my mom's family died | | | | That was my last cigarette. I have never even |
| of lung cancer. | | | | thought about smoking. People can smoke |
| | | | around me and I don't give it a thought. |
| My dad's only sibling died of lung cancer. | | | | |
| | | | I no longer cough at night and the vision in |
| My mom died of a brain tumor-she used to be a | | | | my left eye is fine now. |
| heavy smoker. | | | | |