Actor who played Marlboro Man in ads dies from smoking-related disease

[Hassin Bin Sober]

22. My mom would have loved to live to 80.

The saddest part of the whole ordeal was trying to comfort her and not let her beat herself up for, in her words, "I should have never smoked those stupid things".

She died at the point the grandkids were old enough to start enjoying their grandma and I was at the point in my career were I (single, gay no kids) could treat them to nice things as a thank you for all they did for me. Instead she got spent the last two years of her life in and out of hospitals and gasping for breath. Dead at 70. Her mom lived to a relatively healthy 85.

I just watched the same thing happen to my partner's dad. An otherwise strong healthy man, gasping for breath like a fish out of water. A brand new grandchild who will never know him. He had two older grandkids he was able to enjoy from the older sister but one can just feel the sadness of the younger sister knowing her baby will never know grandpa.

Comments and cartoons like that are offensive to people who have been through this.