For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 29, 2013

Mmm, tasty. Phil must have some tough teeth.

If it’s a comedy thing in Canada I’ve never seen it. But it sure looks like Phil is having a hard time giving up the nicotine.

It’s a joke, that’s all.

My old apartment probably still has the claw marks on the walls from when I quit smoking.

It very tough to quit smoking tobacco… but not as tough as dying of lung cancer. Loose all your hair from kemo and gain 60 lbs from steroids. end up in a wheel chair as the cancer rots out your brain and goes every where in your body. Finally you die of an embolism. Watched as my best friend died of lung cancer. He beat drugs ten years before he died of lung cancer. He could not beat smoking tobacco. Its a tough one to lick. My mom is now 93 and quit at 60 years old. It is possible to quit.

My mom quit smoking at 45 when I was 10 (after years of “quitting” for a few weeks at a time). Lung cancer still killed her 20+ years later.

But watching what she went though to quit is the reason I was never tempted to even try a cigarette.

dude, so many people say it is worse than hard drugs. Can’t understand why anyone would start.

Reading these comments makes me ever so happy that I’ve never smoked, anything!

Watching my brother hide in the bathroom to smoke after he threatened to kill me if I told our parents, made me decide then and there that it wasn’t worth it. I’m 76 now and have never tasted a cigarette.

GOOD FOR YOU DID NOT MISS A THING[

The three most abused drugs in the U.S. are nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol. I have used them all. Have been nicotine free for 21 years, caffeine free for about 8 hours and alcohol free for about 5 minutes. :)