My father smoked all his adult life. On one occasion when he tried to give up he was so impossible to live with that I, who hated it, begged him to start again. He was an active man who died from sudden heart failure. I hold to the belief that his heart attack was smoking-related.
As an asthmatic myself, I completely fail to understand anyone who can aver that smoking can help asthma. Except... she may yet be right. When I was a child, the thing that helped me most was a coal tar vaporiser. It smelt nasty, and gave me a disgusting taste in the mouth (I usually had the thing burning overnight beside my bed), but - bizarrely - it worked. Life is strange.
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He was an active man who died from sudden heart failure. I hold to the belief that his heart attack was smoking-related.
As an asthmatic myself, I completely fail to understand anyone who can aver that smoking can help asthma. Except... she may yet be right. When I was a child, the thing that helped me most was a coal tar vaporiser. It smelt nasty, and gave me a disgusting taste in the mouth (I usually had the thing burning overnight beside my bed), but - bizarrely - it worked. Life is strange.