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In reply to the discussion: Treated like a Queen FOR Smoking at Office Christmas Party [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)He smoked his last the day he died. I guess an hour or so before he slipped quietly in his sleep, still hooked to the O2. He had to be reminded not to smoke while on Oxygen, a common accident among smokers on O2.
He was told thirty years before and forty as well, that it be good to quit. My brother, an MD by training, told him as well. He laughed. It was never, ever going to happen to him. What did doctors know anyway? Well, it did.
He did quit for seven months after open heart, triple cabbage, but it is so damn addictive...he was back on it.
The last five years, none told him anymore. He was too old, and quitting might add a few months. So we let him enjoy his cigs (and whiskey). But he had that same attitude, the "young health nuts" in the OP is that attitude.