Smoking In Bed
During the last seven years emphysema killed four people I knew well; one of them related. Three were males and one female. Their ages ranged from 53 to 64. All of them smoked.The female smoked for fifteen years, one of the males for thirty years while the other two smoked since childhood; all of them about 20 per day.
Not all people who smoke get emphysema and not everyone who get emphysema smokes, but the occurance of emphysema is much higher amongst smokers.
Then why do some people smoke since childhood and never get emphysema, while others smoke for fifteen or twenty years and get it.
The persons I mentioned all had the same habit. They frequently smoked while in bed; flat on their backs. Even when waking up in the night. Could this be significant?
Have a great day!
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But who am I to tell why some get it and some doesn't?
IN fact I have not thought much of it...
I don't know if it is a theory; I did not read anything up. It is just something I thought about for a while.
Yes, I know about your uncle. He is included in my four.
My one uncle also died of emphysema. He stopped smoking five years before his death, but started again about a month before he died. By then he could not walk to the toilet without being out ofbreath. I think he must have smoked his last cigarette (in bed) about 20 minutes before he died!
The temperature was an angle I did not even think of.
I was thinking in the lines of where the tar and the nicotine settle.
This is what the Mayo Clinic has to say on it.
94 is amazing
Just could not resist... my humor is to morbid sometimes..
Yeah that's the great thing of being a grandma, to be with the grandkids and just take care of them while mom and dad have other things to do. I hope you get to see you grandson soon to Catfoot.
Yes, it happens.
Just for a matter of interest, Did he work or live at a place where he was exposed to a lot of pollution?
I'll read it tonight!
Longevity runs in families.
My grandmother (mom's mother0 died at 102 under sedation after falling on the staircase. Both my grandfathers died deep in their nineties. If they did not get cancer they would still have been alive. My father (85) still drives his own car. I look forward to a grand old age.
I hope it is just tobacco!
I am Gastro-Enterologist but from my knowledge in internal medicine , smoking in bed is not the reason for Emphysema , even smoking itself is not a reason for it but it is a risk factor ( you got me ) , so we can find people with emphysema and they even never smoked a stick , and we can find people smoke for 50 years and do not develop emphysema , Emphysema is a problem with lung elasticity ( as a simplified term ) .
Smoking is only a risk factor not a reason .
A very professional comment and I understand it much better now.
As you said smoking is a risk factor and statistics prove that. I accept that it is not the cause of lung cancer as nonsmokers also get it.
I'm just wonderng if any researh had been made in that direction. I could not find any stats to the effect. Just maybe it might be an even bigger risk factor. Just wondering?
I read the other day that, not conclusively so, but research showed a larger tendency to develop colon cancer if you use a lot of wheat products, esp white bread. That is what set me thinking!
I do not know what that cow smokes,but on the look of it's face it's more then tobacco...
Just another reason not to drink milk!
I saw you, but you did not see me.
I used to smoke.... but gave up about 26 years ago. But I dont mind to taste some Clinton´s cigar sometimes....
hoping the after-shock passes quick as possible!!!
Sorry to hear about your friends. Glad to hear you had stopped smoking! Hope you had a great day!
may the good Lord bring you peace,joy and happiness always!!!
yes indeed it is much worse than I had first anticipated...guess I know how the cold turkey feels now...am hear a strange humming bee kinda noise come from the brain,or maybe its just the ears playing tricks on me...not sure anymore.
tomorrow I will release this tension back into the wilds of the earth...
Sorry for late...
Yes, he used to in a company where produced rubber products for a long time Maybe that's the one source of polution. After he retired the company moved to suburban district.
I only got back now. I'm Ok, thanks!.
Yes man, a bad unhealthy habit.
Nice pic. Yep, omly the rich can afford smoking!
After ten and a half months I still feel like that!
Hmm, they make all these discoveries, but how long until it can help us?
Yep, not just any old farm. The best and the biggest!
Nice dropping in!
Thank you, but luckily none of them recently.
You're not late, I'm late. Only got back just now!
I'm sure this need some proer research.