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Friday, 4 November 2005
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The message from a new hard-hitting anti-smoking campaign is that nearly every smoker has the early stages of emphysema.
Kids, don't smoke.
I watched my wife's grandfather die a horrid death from emphysema.
I played for over 15 years with a trumpet player who struggled to play
because of the effects of emphysema. If he is still with us he
will almost certainly die from emphysema.
My mother, who smoked from her teen years until she turned 65 (she quit
because she answered my daughter one day when she asked when Grandma
was going to stop smoking, "When I'm 65", and she did, telling no one,
and not for a minute lapsing - I so love her for that).
She is old enough that other things may kill her before emphysema does. In the meantime it is not a pleasant condition.
Kids, don't smoke.
[ABC News: Health]
1:28:57 AM 
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