For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 22, 2016

Don’t we, non-smokers, all when concerned for smokers?

Whiskey and cigarettes have cut short more than one musical career. And let’s not get into what drugs have done !.

I’ve known a surprising number of brass players who smoked. Heck, I think Maynard even smoked for a good portion of his career. Still a stupid thing to do.

So fortunate none in my family smoke. Hubby will live long time.

I say let Darwinism take it’s course, just ensure he doesn’t expose you and your family to his toxic crap.

Nothing like the preachy and self-righteous. How about we focus on something important, like feeding starving children or how about helping abuse victims? My grandfather never smoked a day in his life and didn’t drink, died at 54, my great-grandfather rolled his own cigarettes, drank, and ate the worst foods imaginable and he lived to 86.

FYI — it’s all a craps shoot.

Judgy family and friends are usually (but not always) seriously worried about you. It’s hard to accept but there it is.

Elly is not exactly the picture-perfect model of health herself.. Correct me if I am wrong, but there are no strips showing Elly participating in a bikini fitness competition. She has also been known to eat sweets on the sly (after telling her kids how bad they are). As Jesus Christ put it “Physician, heal thyself”.

My grandfather smoked like a chimney all his adult life and died at age 92 from a cause that had nothing to do with smoking. I guess he was one of the lucky ones, but I don’t want to push my luck, good genes or no.

I don’t care if people smoke and have the accompanying health problems. Just don’t do it anywhere near me. I never want to smell cigarette smoke.

Some people are very lucky to live a long life in spite of making very unhealthy choices. I try to make healthy choices for myself and my children because most in my family haven’t lived very long. I’m under 40 – all of my grandparents are gone and both my biological parents along with several aunts and uncles (my mom was not from natural causes). My smoking father had a stroke at 62.

Miles Davis smoked just about anything and he played the trumpet for a good long while…

@mstreselena, so,you’ve done a study based on a sample size of 2.Sounds about right if you’re Phillip Morris!

My father always used to sing this little ditty…“Cigarettes and whiskey and wild,wild women…they’ll drive you crazy they’ll drive you insane”. I never knew where it was from, but he used to sing it a lot. He and my mother smoked until I was about age 8 and then quit. My mother died at age 82 from heart failure in 2000 and my father died from advanced Alzheimer’s at age 84 in December 2014. She was 12 years older than him. OK, just wanted to share that song as this arc reminded me of it. ☺

Biker’s credo: “I would rather have a short wild life, than a long dull one!”

If you haven’t seen it already, a good film is called Thank You For Smoking which is actually a balanced view of tobacco. Best line in it from the protagonist “When my son reaches the age of majority and wants to smoke, I will support his decision. In fact, if he is so inclined to smoke, I will buy him his first carton”.

While I don’t smoke(and haven’t for 38 years) I can understand. Having a doctor that makes you give up everything, your whole way of life, is not fun. We have to be able to live our lives, many doctors realize this.