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No. My father died of lung cancer. I hate cigarettes and other forms of smoking.
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mushroomMy father smoked, but gave it up in mid life. He died of heart disease. My mother died of lung cancer several years later. She never smoked, nor have I.
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I smoked once about 2-3 years ago. Only a couple of puffs and that too out of peer pressure.
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No, never have and never will. I like my lungs as they are.
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I used to smoke, and used to be an alcoholic. I quit them both on the same day and never looked back.
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I smoked a few times in the past to see what's really the big deal about smoking. I wondered what's so great about it. Nothing, really (just my opinion). So no, I really don't smoke.
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Nope, never.
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I smoke. I smoked for 9 years, then quit as soon as I found out I was pregnant, then took it up after 1 year of breast feeding my son. I am such a fool for doing it. I am in my 30s.
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I am 29. I smoked tobacco once before I was 7 and once again when I was 10.
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Nope. Never have, never will. My parents both smoked, when I was little, but my dad quit cold turkey in 1985 (he bet a work colleague $50: whoever smokes first loses; they’re still waiting) and I haven’t seen my mom smoke since 1994. (My father has sworn me to a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy with her, so I assume she still does so occasionally, but certainly not to my knowledge. My grandmother, however, smokes like a freight train. My parents buy at least a dozen cartons every time they visit me in Indiana because they’re so much cheaper here. She’s 84 and quite frail, but she won’t give up her one genuine vice.
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Yes, I smoke... Marlboro lights...1 pack a day, since I was 16. Yes, I know the risk. Yes I'd like to quit at some point. But, for some reason the more people pressure me to quit, the more I want to smoke. I have to do it in my own time. I do try however to be a courteous smoker and not do it around other people and try and make sure not to wreak of the stench. It's just not polite to poison people with your vice.
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Army Veteran
Funny thing about emphysema - it sneaks up on you. By the time you start showing symptoms, it's too late to do anything about it. That's what happened to me - I started noticing that I would be short of breath sometimes, breathing a little heavily after only a little walking. I didn't pay attention to it because it came and went - being dehydrated will cause the same symptoms. Then came my annual physical and the doctor told me: "You have emphysema - it's a progressive disease with no cure." I count the days now, trying to educate anyone who will listen and learn from my mistakes.
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Now how mant people know that if you smoke 1 cig. it takes 10 years for your lungs to get back to as good as they can be, which still isnt full health.
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Yep, I smoke a good cigar about once every two weeks, and have been doing so for about a year. I am 21 now.
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I'm 16, smoke weed. I started when I was 14
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Army Veteran
Something to be proud of, isn't it?
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I smoked for 30 years until diagnosed with emphysema. A close friend died from lung cancer. Life isn't the same as before and there are no do-overs.
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I am nearly 75. I smoked off and on since i was 13 or 14. I smoked cigarettes, joints, pipes, bongs and hookahs. I don't smoke anything now. I had my last cigarette after T-day dinner in '09. I quit smoking weed a long time before that.
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