Smoking and Lung Cancer

[pilot]

My mother has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer caused by years of smoking. Nor is she the first person in my family who will die of a smoking-related disease, as I have a grandfather who died of emphysema.

Seeing what my mom is going through, I can say that lung cancer has got to be one of the worst ways to die. It's matasticized to her brain, and her whole head is full of tumors.

This brings up the question: why do people smoke? There's no doubt that smoking causes lung cancer and other horrible diseases, yet people continue to do it.

I try to talk to some of the young people I know who smoke and how my mother has a brain full of tumors, and they don't want to hear about it. They all seem to think that it can't happen to them.

I've decided that anyone who smokes has got to be an absolute idiot!!!

[belvak (Premo)]

Originally Posted by pilot

My mother has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer caused by years of smoking. Nor is she the first person in my family who will die of a smoking-related disease, as I have a grandfather who died of emphysema.

Seeing what my mom is going through, I can say that lung cancer has got to be one of the worst ways to die. It's matasticized to her brain, and her whole head is full of tumors.

This brings up the question: why do people smoke? There's no doubt that smoking causes lung cancer and other horrible diseases, yet people continue to do it.

I try to talk to some of the young people I know who smoke and how my mother has a brain full of tumors, and they don't want to hear about it. They all seem to think that it can't happen to them.

I've decided that anyone who smokes has got to be an absolute idiot!!!

[Baja28]

rut roh....

[Chasey_Lane]

My grandmother passed away about 3 years ago from lung cancer. She quit smoking more than 25 years prior when my grandfather (her husband) passed away from the same. She was gone w/in two weeks of her diagnosis. It was horrible and sad to watch her failing body.

Good luck w/your mom. My thoughts are with you.

[belvak (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Chasey_Lane

My grandmother passed away about 3 years ago from lung cancer. She quit smoking more than 25 years prior when my grandfather (her husband) passed away from the same. She was gone w/in two weeks of her diagnosis. It was horrible and sad to watch her failing body.

Good luck w/your mom. My thoughts are with you.

Your Grandparents were great people!! It's still hard for me to believe your Grandmom is gone. She was always just one of those people who you figured would be around forever.

[sockgirl77 (Premo)]

I knew people that died of lung cancer and never smoked a cigarette in their life.

[Chasey_Lane]

Originally Posted by belvak

Your Grandparents were great people!! It's still hard for me to believe your Grandmom is gone. She was always just one of those people who you figured would be around forever.

I know. I miss her so much. She was truly a great, caring person (with too many damn neighborhood children. )

[Baja28]

Originally Posted by sockgirl77

I knew people that died of lung cancer and never smoked a cigarette in their life.

I was gonna say "standby for rebuttal from the idiots".


:running:

[belvak (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Chasey_Lane

I know. I miss her so much. She was truly a great, caring person (with too many damn neighborhood children. )

Hey, I was one of those children!!

[Chasey_Lane]

Originally Posted by belvak

Hey, I was one of those children!!