From: jdbeard@patriot.net   
      
   On 09/27/2012 11:00 PM, Moe Trin wrote:   
   > On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in   
   article   
   > , Adam wrote:   
   >   
   >> Back in 2000, my best friend died of a heart attack at age 51.  He   
   >> had COPD, was on oxygen, and kept smoking.   
   >   
   > Next door - she's got COPD among many other problems (it's September,   
   > and they're well into "the donut hole" in Medicare D), and I'm pretty   
   > sure he's finally stopped smoking (pipe). Neither his cardiologist   
   > or oncologist were able to get him to stop, and all of the neighbors   
   > were offering encouragement to try.  I mentioned another neighbor who   
   > died recently in hospice from complications relating to heart disease   
   > and diabetes yet continued to smoke and refused to change his diet.   
      
   My father was an inveterate tobacco user into his 80s.  Intense   
   pressure from the doctors persuaded him to give up tobacco in his   
   81st year, and early in his 82d year he crossed the Great Divide.   
      
   Giving up tobacco did nothing useful for him, and may have   
   shortened his life rather than extend it.  Tobacco was one of few   
   principal pleasures still remaining to him, and I suspect that   
   losing that simply reduced motivation to live.   
      
   Cheers!   
      
   jim b.   
      
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