apmom wrote
I smoke. I do not plan on quitting smoking. I am 71 years old and have smoked since I was 16. Will I ever get Cancer? Who the hell knows but it does not run in my family at all. Not either with the non-smokers OR the smokers. Many cancers are a partial result of what is in your dna, your genes. Some are more susceptible to it than others. But I look at it this way, I am going to die anyway so I may as well eat what I want (once in awhile anyway) and smoke as long as I want to. Period! I have lived a good, even if not a well-off life, married a man that was good, honest, hard working and loyal, raised two really great kids and now get to watch my 5 grandchildren grow into fine adults. There isn't a whole lot more that I care to do and with society today, not sure I want to stick around much longer anyway. I do not like the "me" generation of today much. I don't like it when I see it in my grandkids and don't like it when I see it in anyone else. That is just how it is.
Both my parents smoked. My mom went the cancer route at age 59. My dad lived until he was 83 but the last 7 years suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and was basically chair bound because getting up to walk from his living room to the kitchen for a cup of coffee would leave him gasping for air. 

I guess what I am saying is, this was not a pleasant thing to watch my dad go through and I would hate to see this happen to you. 


"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson