From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 09/28/2012 06:05 AM, Jim Beard wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   	Why didn't he catch fire, using oxygen and 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.   
      
   	That is why health care costs go up for individuals and   
   families.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   	Well unless the physician prescribed nicotine patches he   
   would definitely have been in a lot of discomfort.   
   >   
   > Cheers!   
   >   
   > jim b.   
   >   
      
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