• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    My family smoked like chimneys. I closed myself in my bedroom and avoided un-necessary contact.

    Great grandmother got emphysema and died.
    Great grandfather got throat cancer, a tracheotomy, and died.
    Grandfather got lung cancer and died.
    Mom got cancer and survived.
    Dad had a massive heart attack and died.

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      7 months ago

      My parents only smoked when they had company at home and it was still so dusgusting. Not the smoke itself necessarily, but the morning after when the whole house smelled like old ashtray.
      I had a neighbour growing up who would smoke like a crazy person. Her house was quite literally yellow on the insinde. Surprisingly she lived to be almost 70.

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        7 months ago

        There are some that manage to make it a long life with what most would have issues with (I.e. a lifetime of smoking.) A good friend died recently and he made it to what I would consider a long life. Was able to retire and stay active for years. Got diagnosed with cancer, two weeks later dead after the first chemo therapy. I’m very happy he didn’t live a much longer life - the pain that would have put him in would have been unbearable, and given how quickly he passed in guessing the cancer was fairly advanced…