To Rod - Re: quitting smoking for surgery the other biased side

[Guest guest]

etta

Oh I hope for your sister's and your family's sake that you are

getting through to her. I look forward to hearing the news from you

that your sister has given up.

My approach to giving up was to simply toss a nearly full packet into

the trash. I had given up so I didn't need them. You wouldn't beleive

it - my mother retrieved them and admonished me for wasting them.

Your other post brought tears to my eyes - I related to it so much.

Rod

-- In orthognathicsurgerysupport , " johnetta myers "

wrote:

> Rod,

>

> I just got an email from my sister. All it said was, " Okay, give

me a break. I'm trying to quit. "

>

> Thanx for your help - every post on this you wrote, I forwarded it

to her with a subject line of something along the lines of " Am I

getting through, yet? "

>

> For some reason, I think she actually means it this time, I guess

because she didn't make any excuses. Yipppeeeeee!

>

> Smooches

>

> Re: quitting smoking for

surgery the other biased side

>

>

> Well Dan, during the prohibition era in the USA a lot of people

made

> a lot of money too but that didn't make it right either. Sure the

US

> economy has benefitted, in a sense, from the production and

marketing

> of tobacco but consider the costs that are usually left out of

the

> equation. The increased cost of health care due to extended and

more

> complex treatment necessary is borne (in Australia) by the tax

payer.

> Premature death robs the economy of productive human beings and

> diverts valuable resources away from other important areas. My

mother

> spent 14 weeks, including 2 weeks in intensive care, in hospital

> recovering from post operative complications and was in hospital

> every winter for seven years for up to 4 weeks at a time because

she

> couldn't breathe. My brother-in-law spent 3 months in hospital.

The

> cost to my family (paid by the tax payers of Australia) - well

over

> $200,000. I have no doubt if the tobacco industry had been forced

to

> pay for their treatment it would have had a very big loss against

> these two customers. The emotional cost my family suffered was

> enormous too and you cannot put a dollar figure against the

> suffering. The economic benefit argument does not hold up to

close

> scrutiny when the cost/benefits are properly considered.

> You may think smoking is cool, you may think it shows an

independance

> of action but I urge you to visit an oncology (cancer) ward or

> pulmonary (lung) function ward in a large hospital to see first

hand

> where smokers end up. It is not a pretty sight.

> When I was your age I used to smoke and think it was cool too -

until

> I investigated the smoking related health problems for myself.

When I

> learnt about the amputations, emphysema, heart disease and all

the

> cancers caused by smoking I gave up immediately (aged 22) but

> ironically I could not convince my mother to do likewise. When

she

> was my current age (60) she already had acute and severe

emphysema

> and my brother-in-law was already dead 6 years from multiple

cancers

> (dead at 54). My mother suffered bronchial pneumonia 4-5 times a

year

> for most of the time I could remember - all because of smoking

and

> often required multiple home visits from the doctor or

> hospitalization. None of this is factored into the cost of a

packet

> of fags.

> Don't think you are helping the economy by smoking. The only

economy

> being helped is that of the cigarette company and they don't give

a

> dam about you.

> Good luck in your studies at school but please think about your

> smoking.

> Rod

>

>

> > I understand what everyone has said and I take it to heart. I

> > understand what is being explained. But rather then trying to

make

> > people aware through my own words ill link everyone to a site.

> >

> > http://fujipub.com/fot/working.html

> >

> > Took me a few minutes to find on google, but it supports what I

> would

> > be talking about. It's geting late and I have to return to

school

> on

> > day 10 post op. My only goal here is to show the other sides

to

> this

> > argument. Basicly saying without this 'horrible' crop it is

likley

> > that America wouldn't even be here today. Just something to

think

> > about. Being a smoker I had to have my input. Good night.

>

>

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