Reprocessed Meat
I would like to join this team.
I do not have cancer. I do not know anyone who has cancer. I don't even have friends of friends who have had cancer. I'm lucky enough to even still have my great great grandmother and her older sister still alive.
However, I have lived all my life around smokers who cared little if I had second hand smoke, so I know I'm at risk. My mother always said, "It's the quitters that get cancer!"
Offering my support is the least I can do knowing my own risks.
Just saying, "It's the quitters that get cancer!" is not true at all.
It's actually backwards.
Quitters over time can gain their lives back from risks such as cancer.
That doesn't mean they'll be free from it, but it lowers the risk.
I saw a chart one time in my dad's doctors office room about it.
I had a cousin that I didn't quite know, he moved not too far from here, and he smoked a pack a day and drunk whenever he could.
He was 65-ish so he didn't really have much left besides his family and wife and such.
He died a few weeks after my last birthday (Which was around Halloween).
Now another one of my cousins have cancer.
Right now she's doing the radiation and dying.
I don't know if she gave up smoking or not.
Plus both of my parents smoked about a pack a day,
but it became a problem with my breathing, so they quit cold turkey.
If they didn't, I probably would have cancer from second-hand smoke, or they would.
Now they just drink. Which isn't much of a problem.
These days you could make a car payment with a pack a day. Two packs a day is about the cost of a house payment.
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