How could both my Grandparents smoke cigarrettes well into their 90's??
Question: They were farm people in Minnesota, Grandfather passed away at 96, Grandmother 95. (married 77 years, 11 children). They both had told me they started smoking very young. I never noticed ill effects. Both passed away due to stroke complications.
Answers: while smoking is detrimental to the health of many it is certainly not to all my grandfather smoked 3 packs a day for as long as i can remember he died of cancer and his lungs were about the only cancer free organ he had so go figure my father has smoked for over 3o years he went to a new doctor a few years ago and i kid you not she looked at the images of his lungs and said it was a good thing he didnt smoke before she looked at his charts when she saw that he did smoke she told him that he needed to quit but struggled to give him a good reason since it hadnt done damage thus far pretty much i thing each of us has our time to go and regardless of how you live that is when you go too many people put too much faith in modern medicine even though every time you turn around they are changing their mind about what you should do wonder drugs of one year are killers the next i dont smoke myself because i personally never found it to be appealing, but i think what one does should be their choice afterall, it is them that has to live with the consequences not their doctors and that if everyone lived as they should and everything drs said was a fact we wouldnt need many doctors now would we?
Luck.
Also, stroke could be from smoking!!!
Quite frankly new studies are showing that most of that medical hype about cigarettes was total bullsh*t.
Because smoking CAN cause cancer, etc... and does most of the time, but not always. Just like my aunt who passed from cancer never smoked a day in her life. She still got it. People die no matter what they do or don't do.
cigarettes were good for you back in the olden days.
it is all due to genetics and luck. my dad had emphysema at 59 but both of his parents died of natural causes after age 90. and they both smoked. they were also farm people
Dumb luck...Who knows how long they would have lived had they NOT smoked.
Smoking, like anything else, affects people different ways. It's not that smoking will, for sure, kill you. It's that the odds of getting ill from the effects are higher.
Your grandparents obviously were pretty healthy and formed the far end of the curve. Some people keel over in their 20s and 30s and form the near end of the curve. Most fall in the middle somewhere.
I smoked for years and played three games of soccer a week and had no problems. I quit when they got too expensive, and haven't noticed much difference in anything. As I said, it depends on the person and their body, like any other health issue.
My grandfather was in his mid eighties, and had smoked from an early age, but smoking did kill him.
He was ran over by a car as he crossed the road to buy some cigarettes!
True story.
lucky them don't follow their habits not everybodies that lucky, cigarettes have never been proven to cause lung cancer for the few like your grandparents, but it a common sense thing now ,in the early 1900 s people didn't have the medical experts and knowledge we do today.
Pure luck
SEE, the health people were right,.....it will kill ya! lol
Thanks, more people need to hear these truths!
Good genes and working hard outdoors.
Answers: while smoking is detrimental to the health of many it is certainly not to all my grandfather smoked 3 packs a day for as long as i can remember he died of cancer and his lungs were about the only cancer free organ he had so go figure my father has smoked for over 3o years he went to a new doctor a few years ago and i kid you not she looked at the images of his lungs and said it was a good thing he didnt smoke before she looked at his charts when she saw that he did smoke she told him that he needed to quit but struggled to give him a good reason since it hadnt done damage thus far pretty much i thing each of us has our time to go and regardless of how you live that is when you go too many people put too much faith in modern medicine even though every time you turn around they are changing their mind about what you should do wonder drugs of one year are killers the next i dont smoke myself because i personally never found it to be appealing, but i think what one does should be their choice afterall, it is them that has to live with the consequences not their doctors and that if everyone lived as they should and everything drs said was a fact we wouldnt need many doctors now would we?
Luck.
Also, stroke could be from smoking!!!
Quite frankly new studies are showing that most of that medical hype about cigarettes was total bullsh*t.
Because smoking CAN cause cancer, etc... and does most of the time, but not always. Just like my aunt who passed from cancer never smoked a day in her life. She still got it. People die no matter what they do or don't do.
cigarettes were good for you back in the olden days.
it is all due to genetics and luck. my dad had emphysema at 59 but both of his parents died of natural causes after age 90. and they both smoked. they were also farm people
Dumb luck...Who knows how long they would have lived had they NOT smoked.
Smoking, like anything else, affects people different ways. It's not that smoking will, for sure, kill you. It's that the odds of getting ill from the effects are higher.
Your grandparents obviously were pretty healthy and formed the far end of the curve. Some people keel over in their 20s and 30s and form the near end of the curve. Most fall in the middle somewhere.
I smoked for years and played three games of soccer a week and had no problems. I quit when they got too expensive, and haven't noticed much difference in anything. As I said, it depends on the person and their body, like any other health issue.
My grandfather was in his mid eighties, and had smoked from an early age, but smoking did kill him.
He was ran over by a car as he crossed the road to buy some cigarettes!
True story.
lucky them don't follow their habits not everybodies that lucky, cigarettes have never been proven to cause lung cancer for the few like your grandparents, but it a common sense thing now ,in the early 1900 s people didn't have the medical experts and knowledge we do today.
Pure luck
SEE, the health people were right,.....it will kill ya! lol
Thanks, more people need to hear these truths!
Good genes and working hard outdoors.
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