Re: Best excuse EVER for quitting a band...


"Brian Running" <brunning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I quit because it finally got through my nicotine-fogged brain that
smoking wasn't good for me. I wasn't having any health problems at the
time I quit,

Oh, yes you were. You can't be a smoker and not have smoking-related
health problems. Unless your threshold for "health problems" is
full-blown cancer or emphysema. If you're a smoker at all, don't kid
yourself that you don't have any health problems.

That's exactly what I've been trying to tell Jim and the other smokers
here. I should have said that I wasn't aware of any health problems at the
time I quit, other than having a heart attack at age 32 and quintuple bypass
surgery at age 37. :-)
On the bright side, most of the effects of smoking are reversible and after
five years or so, your chance of getting lung cancer, heart disease and
other health issues associated with smoking are about the same as a
life-long non-smoker. That is assuming you didn't already get them while you
were smoking.


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