Mike Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I had an uncle who was alcoholic all his life. Big, strong guy, natural >mesomorph, healthy as a horse, almost literally never sick a day in his >life. So guess what he died of? Lung cancer, even though he quit smoking in >the 1950s. All that booze didn't do him much harm, but the ciggies killed >him. His death was especially hard on his family because he was a real hero >to his many grandchildren, a real rock, a great influence on them (despite >his drinking, which he kept pretty well hidden from them). It's just a >crying shame he didn't live another ten years--he would have seen all of >them into adulthood, and been there for their teen years. Man, anybody who >thinks that the years that smoking takes off your life don't matter....
Just last night I was listening to George Harrison's (excellent) last album (titled "Brainwashed") and thought how ironic it was that, after all the Beatles' notoriety for experimenting with LSD and pot during the 60s, it was a legal drug that killed him. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
