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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carol who wrote (20268)	4/12/1998 9:34:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Carol, I am truly sorry to learn of your cousin's illness. I'm curious as to how many and what kinds of birds she has or had and were the birds checked regularly by a veterinarian who specializes is birds? Holly

To: Carol who wrote (20268)	4/13/1998 2:18:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Carol, what you are saying about some of the effects of smoking coming on stronger after you have quit is logical to me, although I have no medical knowledge of it at all. Nicotine and all those chemicals are in cigarettes to make you feel good. One thing that particularly scared me was a story I heard about the tiny filaments in Marlboro which were particularly pleasing to the lungs, but never disintegrated and stayed in there until you died. Is that true? Does anyone know? I liked Benson & Hedges menthol, which made me feel like my lungs were wide open and I was breathing crisp minty air with Arctic purity (and an iceberg was headed my way). Certainly in my father's experience, he felt increasingly more energetic and generally wonderful after he quit smoking, but then gradually as he aged the full extent of the damage he had done to his lungs became more apparent, long after he had stopped. It sounds like your cousin has a very expert doctor, and I would tend to respect his opinions and diagnoses unless they are illogical. Certainly birds and other pets might make a difference, but I am not aware of many non-smoking pet owners being crippled by respiratory problems in middle age. Usually the most simple, obvious explanation of a problem is closer to the truth. Nicotine is a very powerful drug, and it is very easy to rationalize away the risks when you are addicted, from my own experience. I am still concerned that someday I will pay the price, and there is nothing I can do about it except never smoke another cigarette. An anxious waiting game!!