Good reason to quit? Mom died recently at age 82, after having quit 15 years earlier, after having smoked from teenage years to 70's. She was always afraid smoking would reach out and get her after all, and it did. She developed tonsil cancer which required radiation treatments, which destroyed her ability to eat and drink, which then required a tube placement in her stomach for hydration and nutrition. As she loved to cook and eat, one of her greatest pleasures was taken completely away. And I don't even mention the miserable aftermath of radiation to the neck.
She was such an active, positive woman. Vivacious, fun, kind, and my father's best buddy. But for smoking, she should have lived for many more high-quality years. It's the saddest thing in the world.
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