Time To Quit

[Epimethean]

I am sorry for your loss.... my condolences. But 68 is a good long life for one who lived through what she did. Her birth date was during the "Great Depression"?

Did you know that the medical General Practitioners would prescribe cigarettes as a treatment for stress?? I kid you not ...my own mother (who is now looking at her 75th birthday) went through a period where these "things" were of some assistance to her.

I only rage against the thoughtless, religious parroting of the media hype. Just as many "healthy non- smoking people" are jamming up the medical system as are smokers...what you have "bought into is the media hype" and are parroting such. Not much better than a religious nut job?

I agree the imbibing of any "smoke" is of little assistance to ones respiratory system but then I remember that the "smoking" of say Sage or Cloves was a treatment for asthma prior to the pharmaceutical companies isolating the active ingredients and finding other compounds to do the same job.

Suffice to say...Harm none and do as you will.

Kichi, the media hype as you put it is accurate. Yes, doctors used to smoke bedside as they recommended such idiotic therapies. They also used to bleed people for any ailment. My mother came out of that ignorant generation. She was ignorant, and, after a fashion, I do agree with Moros that it was she who killed herself-out of ignorance. We know better now. For me to sit back and say, "Ah, well, cigarettes. Fair enough. I don't care for them, but cool if you do" would fly in the face of the fact that I can trace the loss of my mother to them, that they smell like shit, make other people smell like shit, and compromise their health without improving the quality of their lives. If she had used the new e-cigs, would she still be around? I have no idea, and there I have to admit my own ignorance. But for me to say that smoking is anything but bad would go against deeply held biases which I am currently unwilling to cross.