When you smoke 43 years, 2 1/2 PAD, you're a confirmed smoker. I had so given up trying to quit until e cigs came along and I'm not sure those
cigalikes from '09 would have done the trick. Around month 6 my 6 cigarettes a day started edging up and the hassle of charging
batteries and cleaning atties was starting to set in. I thank God I got curious about snus. That calming effect is what I really needed.
It was kind of funny, my mom didn't smoke, my dad a pipe for awhile and an occasional cigar but no cigarettes. In fact the only person that smoked was my aunt who I'd spend a couple weeks of the summer with and she was a chimney too. She'd light one off the last one, all day long. I often wonder now how she was teaching her young elementary students. She probably created a ton of smokers during her career. She lived in an old mining town so I'm sure they also had plenty of additional support from their parents.
Can't say it hurt her life expectancy too much and I just got a wow moment. She lived to be 82 after all those years of smoking. Her mind went but her body lasted a long time. When she was born in '03, life expectancy was 52 and even when she died, it was only 78. Let the ANTZ explain that one.
The wow moment came when it hit me on writing this, could I find her on the net. Not only did I find her, but There's a picture of her tombstone and a picture from the spot in the cemetery. How weird is that? I never knew her husband died 7 years before I was born either.