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Diseases Caused By Smoking Made Sal’s Dad Angry

Posted by J J Seymour on December 6, 2011 Comments Off

This is Sal’s story.

It’s in regards to impairment of normal physiological functions caused by smoking, and if you start out this story, read it to the end, but don’t get started if you’re squeamish.

Sal’s Dad passed from physical life angry. And guess what? Most smokers die angry, and Sal said not only was her Dad eaten up by cancer, he was eaten up by vitriol versus himself and the tobacco companies.

Before Sal’s Dad got caught with one of the predictable impairment of normal physiological functions caused by smoking, his favored saying was, “I’ll give up smoking when I’m ready.” And he did give up… but he wasn’t ready.

No way was he ready to give up life, but that goes grimly hand-in-hand with giving up smoking when you have no choice, ready or not.

He wasn’t ready to face the long slow decline, the finish takeover of life as he had known it.

Nothing else was indispensable – money; the almost finished bathroom with the imported Italian tiles; his precious daughter Sal’s engagement party; the gardening club trip and lots of other things he had looked forward to.

Sal’s Dad agonized and beat himself up over his past decisions. Cell by cell his body passed away as he re-lived each cigarette by cigarette he had smoked with regret. Many of the impairment of normal physiological functions caused by smoking have warning signs, but Sal’s Dad had just grabbed another cigarette to help relax and cope whenever he had felt out of sorts.

He was not ready for nature’s hand. How dare this occur to him. Oh if only, if only…

No smoker is EVER ready. Many widely known and esteemed humans who passed from physical life before their time employed their fame and cash to effort and rail versus smoking, as they gasped, moaned, screamed, dribbled, oozed and hacked tardily from this world.

The firstborn Marlborough Man – this tough, tanned cowboy riding on his horse, looking healthy, sexy, rich and frequent – desperately made a video to support other smokers, as he succumbed to one of the diseases caused by smoking – cancer. But just as desperately, the huge tobacco guns destroyed each copy they could find. (There are still a few underground grainy copies left in the US.)

What in regards to sexy Humphrey Bogart, star of a heap of outstanding films and arguably the finest film ever made – “Casa Blanca.” His signature line was lighting 2 cigs at once and then passing one to a finelooking woman, saying oh so coolly, “One for me and one for my chick.” He passed from physical life of lung cancer aged 56 at the height of his career and life.

Smoking impairment of normal physiological functions got to handsome Yul Brunner before he was ready too, and he passionately implored young humans not to start, as he was struggling to the end.

Ayn Rand, highly intelligent, famous author and founder of Objectivism, was cited as the world’s most rational woman leader from the late 50′s to early 70′s. In her day it was so cool to smoke that she declared she distrusted persons who didn’t smoke! Lung cancer claimed her early in 1982.

Can you see today’s “beautiful people,” the stars of screen and sport who smoke, engaged in a struggle in agony, with tubes in where most of their throat used to be, or with legs amputated because of gangrene due to lack of blood flow, or being implored by a nurse or a loved one to keep breathing, as each breath sounds like hail on a roof and their whole chest wants to explode?

Forget with regards to them, may you see yourself if you’re a smoker for that matter? The diseases caused by smoking don’t care who they assert and when. They don’t care if you’ve got plans for your future.

Every single cigarette is dragging you towards an early, angry and regretful end.

There is not one thing more cherished than life, which is why you mechanically look before you cross the road – to keep out of the way of danger.

You may be careful around traffic.

You may be careful what you eat.

But you can’t be careful with smoking – you smoke or you don’t – no compromises… just bitter regrets, like Sal and Sal’s Dad.