Re: Should smoking be banned outside?
Originally Posted by
Flowerpower
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My neighbour died about 10 years ago from lung cancer and he was a really heavy smoker. He was only 56. It was very sad as he left a wife and two teenagers. He went downhill very fast once diagnosed and had to have oxygen piped through the house. It was a hot summer when he died and it was awful hearing him coughing up his guts when the windows were wide open.
The saddest thing I ever saw was his teenage son coming home from school swinging his school bag and going into the house and seconds later running out crying. I was out the front weeding and asked him what was wrong and after he calmed down a bit he was able to tell me that a stairlift had been fitted while he was at school and it was a shock to realise that his Dad even needed one.
I cant understand why anybody would even buy cigarettes with the vile pictures on cigarette packets of mouth cancers, ulcerated legs, rotten teeth and blocked arteries. i gave up 14 years ago and am so glad I did.
I guess the question you have to ask yourself is
why people start smoking in the first place?
Having started it's almost impossible for some to stop.
A great many manage to do so for fear of future health concerns and for them that is fantastic ... but without sounding morbid or fatalistic I'm of the view that having smoked, it will catch up with the smoker one day regardless. I fully expect to die from a smoking related disease.
Smoking is my vice, my personal poison.
Rather oddly, I have never especially like alcoholic. It makes me feel ill and I dislike the lack of self-control it results in when I once (or twice) got drunk.
Try and figure that one out. You'd think I'd have avoided cigarettes too wouldn't you.