When my Dad was in the hospital for a hernia operation back in 1977 I remember visiting him. Smoking must have been allowed in public buildings then because people were smoking there. The man in the next room had lung cancer and had a hole in his throat (that little area at the bottom of your neck right before your chest). I was walking down the hall and looked in his room and saw him smoking through that little hole!! OMGoodness......it freaked me out! It was the creepiest thing I have ever seen and I remember it vividly to this day.

I've never been addicted to cigarettes but for him to keep smoking during that period in his life it must be an extremely hard habit to break.

That would be enough for me to either never smoke or quit on the spot.

Laura, didn't you have that commercial back east ... about 15 yrs ago ... where that cancer surviver was smoking through the hole in her neck. GACK!!!

(I bet I'll be her though. )

Cherie

Haha, may have, but I don't recall a commercial with it.

I didn't watch a lot of television when I was younger, I played outdoors most of the time.

Yeah, some good it did for me later on!

Interesting article. I never really smoked other than a few times at Happy Hour when I was in school. I thought it made me look cool, but could not stand the smell. I even broke up with a boy friend back then because he would not quit smoking. I grew up with 2nd hand smoke for my first 18 years of life.

I grew up with second hand smoke, lots of it. I've smoked since I was 11. I don't have ms. I think more needs to be studied.

Eleven??? You were a wild child, weren't you?