Have you met them? They're lovely. I couldn't go off them if I tried.
I have a great deal of respect for Gid, but we've argued quite viciously on afp about smoking - Gid professes to disbelieve in the effects of passive smoking and Suzi actually believes that her smoking is beneficial to her asthma (or at least, such was the case last time the subject came up), both of which I find incredible - to an extent which I think precludes us ever being real friends.
Smoking does seem to be something of a blind spot for both of them. Considering that they are both highly intelligent, this is, I agree, something of a befuddlement.
I freely admit, it's not a subject on which I'm at my most rational. My parents both smoked when I was a child and the long drives down to Devon in a smoke-filled car worked like aversion therapy on me. Interestingly, not so for my sister, who still smokes occasionally, although she's not a heavy smoker.
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.
I hold to the belief that his heart attack was smoking-related.
Seems quite probable - although then again, the man who invented joggin died of a heart attack, so who knows?
My mum now has bronchial asthma to the extent that she has a Blue Badge because her ability to walk is so limited and Dad died of throat cancer. I'd be surprised if both weren't smoking related.
My mum has a friend who has survived breast cancer and now has leukemia and still smokes...
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I have a great deal of respect for Gid, but we've argued quite viciously on afp about smoking - Gid professes to disbelieve in the effects of passive smoking and Suzi actually believes that her smoking is beneficial to her asthma (or at least, such was the case last time the subject came up), both of which I find incredible - to an extent which I think precludes us ever being real friends.
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.
Seems quite probable - although then again, the man who invented joggin died of a heart attack, so who knows?
My mum now has bronchial asthma to the extent that she has a Blue Badge because her ability to walk is so limited and Dad died of throat cancer. I'd be surprised if both weren't smoking related.
My mum has a friend who has survived breast cancer and now has leukemia and still smokes...
This is indeed one of the Great Truths :-)