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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AmishJedi, post: 6159357, member: 114568&quot;]He smoked from age 13 to 60 (Camels). At age 60 or so, I remember him throwing up blood (seemed like pints) all over my Mom&#039;s new beige carpet, and going to the hospital.&nbsp; Funny thing is, the doctor told us the blood wasn&#039;t from his lungs (not yet, anyways) but a busted blood vessel in his nose. He winked and said &quot;I&#039;ll leave it to you to tell him the truth.&quot; Pop thought it was his lungs, and we didn&#039;t tell him any different because he needed to quit. Trying to tell a stubborn, Irish-American steelworker to do something is like, well...impossible. My Mom took 3 cartons of their brand new cigarettes (we didn&#039;t have a lot of money growing up) and threw them away. Neither of them smoked after that day. She, would later die of the same type of lung cancer he did - that&#039;s why I don&#039;t smoke and my kids don&#039;t smoke. He quit at age 60 and didn&#039;t get the combined small cell carcinoma (late Stage III when he finally went for help) until age 79. He refused any treatment and died at home w/Hospice care at age 81 - a full life, but cut short. I watched a mountain of a man get reduced to 124 pounds. Never again - that&#039;s why I harp on my kids to stay clean and not to smoke.</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep up the fight, brother! Glad to hear you are in remission...as they say: <i>&quot;You had cancer, but cancer never had you.&quot;</i> Keep kicking its a$$![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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