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- A year ago today -
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Sunday, March 05, 2006
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A year ago today my mom was diagnosed with Lung Cancer. I never blogged about this before, but not really for any particular reason. She's in remission now, and has been for about 8 months. She was diagnosed while here in Florida and did most of her treatments and chemo here, finishing up in Michigan.
It will never cease to amaze me why people who smoke continue to do it, knowing the heath risks involved. I understand that it's an incredibly hard habit to break, not only because of addiction, but also because it's simply that...a habit. I rank smoking right up there along the same lines as suicide. I hate it. Suicide might be great for the person contemplating it, but it destroys everyone and everything around them. Smoking does the exact same thing, only on a different level. Suicide is usually quick, often times painless for victim (if that's what you choose to call it), but also for their loved ones and friends. Smoking is lifelong. Everyone knows how dangerous it is. Family, friends and loved ones are faced to watch the smoker's suicide. Every day, day after day, year after year. Until finally, that day comes. That day could be a life sentence of cancer or worse. A life sentence of death. Mostly both.
Ok, because I'm starting to get frustrated and incredibly annoyed I'm going to stop blogging about this for now. Maybe later I'll continue.
Oh--for the record, I'm not comparing smoking to drinking or other drugs for justification purposes. I know they're all equally dangerous.
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3 Comments:
Smoking is suicide. It's just on the installment plan.
EXACTLY!!!!!
Because it's such a huge, multi billion dollar industry, especially here in the south, that they can't possibly save a few lives by making it illegal--they would go broke!
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