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Borek

Actually, if it takes smoking to live till 85, I am in. In my family men rarely live long past 60.

Char. Limit

Wow, talk about sending the wrong message. I thought only German fairy tales did that.

Seriously. So far I've learned from Der Froschkönig that violence will solve all of your problems and from Oh Wie Schön ist Panama that birds are smart.

leroyjenkens

Quote by Ivan Seeking

That isn't clear by any means. The reports only stated that he smoked during his youth. The fact is that correlation does not imply causation; esp when it happened so many years ago. For example, my grandmother died of cirrhoris of the liver, but she never drank, and an aunt died from emphysema, but she never smoked.

Read under the picture:

The coffin of life-long smoker Albert 'Dick' Whittamore is carried at St Mary's Cemetery in Dover, England, Tuesday March 2, 2010, during a burial service, after he died in January aged 85 from the lung disease emphysema.

As for your grandmother and aunt, their diseases might be related. I looked at the Emphysema article at Wikipedia and under causes it says:

The primary cause of emphysema is the smoking of cigarettes. In some cases it maybe due to alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency. Severe cases of A1AD may also develop cirrhosis of the liver, where the accumulated A1AT leads to a fibrotic reaction.

I just thought that was interesting.

*DaveC426913*

The coffin of life-long smoker Albert 'Dick' Whittamore is carried at St Mary's Cemetery.

Albert Whittamore blamed his youthful smoking habit for the lung disease.

These two sentences smack of contradiction. Technically, they do not contradict each other but it makes me wonder what the truth is.

Kronos5253

"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible."
-T.E. Lawrence

Char. Limit

"Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity; and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking."
-Theodore Roosevelt

OmCheeto

Quote by Bumper Sticker

Stop Global Whining

Saw it today for the first time.

I hate whining.

I had a hearty laugh.

lisab

Quote by OmCheeto

Saw it today for the first time.

I hate whining.

I had a hearty laugh.

Ahahaha...I needed that, it's been a tough week

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Ivan Seeking

The only crime scene I've ever covered was the State legislature in Texas

- Bill Moyers [Journalist]

Lisa!

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop!

Gittel Hudnick

Lisa!

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

Gahan Wilson

*magnusrobot12*

Quote by jobyts

"We have two current threads on the same topic, I have merged them." - Evo

Oh Jobyts, you are so funny

*magnusrobot12*

"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion."

Arnold H. Glasow

*magnusrobot12*

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

Abraham Lincoln

Ivan Seeking

It takes a village to raise a vampire

- a comment made about the evolution of myths; The Secret Life of Vampires; Biography Channel.

Ivan Seeking

Body parts found all over Northern California were found to be connected

- Local news report

Char. Limit

I just discovered one about steam ships. Seems that even though this new technology was to revolutionize the world, one of the most powerful and revolutionary men at the time didn't believe it.

"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck!? I have no time for such nonsense!"

-Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor Napoleon I de France)

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