OT-todays idot,,-fire

When I met my wife in 1964, I was smoking two packs a day. On our second date, my wife owned up to it that she's allergic to tobacco smoke, among other allergies. It sounds dramatic, but when she told me that, I took a pack of cigarettes out of my shirt pocket, threw them into a trash can, and haven't touched one since. We've been married 42 years.

Let's face it, you won't get your Dad to stop smoking at this stage BUT you can help him if he'll change smoking brands.

He can buy little cigars, looks just like ciggerates with filters, come 20 to a pack, 10packs to a carton, about $16/carton on-line, a little longer than 100's size. Swisher Sweets Little Cigars is what there called. Menthol cigars would even be better as it would help heal some of the damage.

There's other brands of cigars now that don't have that strong cigar smeel. Buy a pack of 5 until you find the one he likes.

Cigars are still air cured tobacco where ciggerate tobacco is gas cured and there is the huge problem. Europe, uses air cured tobacco, doesn't have the lung cancer problem that is applied to lung cancer from smoking like the USA has.

It just might help him survive a little longer with less problems than he's having now.

T_Bone

I've lost 95lbs since August. I'm in alot of pain 24/7/365 and eat when the pain gets unbareable thus my huge weight gain. I topped at about 315/lbs at 5ft-11 in mid August, about because my scale wouldn't read above #300...lol

All I did was go to eating nothing but steak (3/4 to 1# eh) and vegetables, good sized portions not skimping, no other type of food for the first 3mths and dropped 55lbs in the first two months. I then have slowly dropped the other 40lbs since that time but I started back with a few homemade malts and speggetti once a week, canned soop/crackers a couple times month.

I'm at #226 this morning. I'm heading back too 180# my weight before I got hurt. You might try this and see what happens.

T_Bone

In Japan JR East banned smoking in most portions of their stations, not out of concern for peoples health, but because of the cost. Over 2 million people a day pass through Shinjuku station in Tokyo. If 60 percent are smokers, and each one drops 1 cigarette, that would be 1,200,000 cigarettes per day to clean up. Can you imagine that?

Mark Twain said "Quitting smoking is easy. I have done it myself hundreds of times." The addictive nature of tobacco was known long before scientists knew why.

All of the men that I worked with that smoked cigarettes are all dead. One man was only retired 3 years and had dizzy spells and finally went to the local VA hospital. He only lived a few days after they did surgery. Full of cancer.

He smoked 5 packs a day and would light another one off the short smoked cigaret. I worked with
3 of them that were chain smokers in this vehicle.
Its a wonder I didn't have problems. Hal

People don't care, remember what it was like to hang out in the smoke filled bars, wish they banned indoor smoking then, it is so nice to go to a place and not have to deal with that any more. Dried up shredded cardboard with sawdust and floor sweepings, wrapped in a paper, they can't be real anymore, good fried still smokes a little, he buys the tobacco and rolls his own, if we are in the truck together, I can almost tolerate the smell of those, kind of similar to pipe tobacco, in comparison. I like a good quality cigar on occasion few times a year, not very often, but even those you have to wonder what is really in them. Regular cigarettes just smell awful, you have to know they are toxic, how people smoke them is beyond me, they're really nasty, no way they are made from a plant grown in the dirt, dried, cured properly and rolled, without some heavy processing and manufacturing in the middle, they reek like garbage burning smoldering in a barrel.

When I was a kid, my neighbor the farmer used to haul hay in from the fields, he said he used to do 20,000 bales back then, and during hay season it was not uncommon to see his old 620 jd and anything with a drawbar hauling tandem wagons down the state road, a tossed cigarette burned 2 stacked wagons full to the ground, was lucky to been able to pull over and roll em off to the side, nothing left but the warped running gear, I just asked him about that this summer, after spending a day in the fields loading for him certainly never forgot that one.