Sorry Joe (Walsh), that used to be one of my fav album titles, but you got it wrong...
I've been working on friends and family slowly and steadily over the years to get them to stop smoking, I try not to offend, but I do not make it easy for them to smoke around me (or the Mrs and kids). As we get older, I've noticed it's the guys who quit first. Both my bro's have quit, as well as my Bro-in-law ;) . It's the women who are having the harder time. My three remaining sisters all smoke (the other who passed died from COPD, and both the Mrs' folks died from smoking related illness as well). The reason my parents are alive today is that they both quit years ago (My Dad quit when he was about my age, my Mom quit a few years later). It is singularly the reason both of them are alive today, you'd be hard pressed to guess either of them is 78 years old.
I was going to go on a kind of mini-crusade over the holidays, but I decided that would just be rude and diminish the season.
We also have some very dear friends who smoke, I'd just like to say the following to our friends and family that still smoke:
We are ALL now well over 40 (and some over 50), I'd really, REALLY like to still see you and be with you when we grow older. It's critical that you stop as soon as possible. The chance for contracting a life ending smoking related illness more than doubles each 5 years you smoke over the age of 40 (that's cumulative!). We're all busy with work, kids, and life in general now, but just a decade or two down the line; we'll be all that each other have to share that unique perspective of growing up at a most unique and exciting point in history.
We are the last of the biggest generation boom of the 20th century. I want to know that you made a choice to continue well into the 21st century to live, see, and share that future.
Please stop smoking.
Just a bit of irony....it was Patti who bought me that Joe Walsh album.
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