Me grandpa also smoked the most wonderful blends in his pipe. Unfortunately, he died of emphysema in 1959. Me mum smoked the palest of cigarettes -- Kents and such -- all filtered to a faretheewell -- but she couldn't walk away from them and eventually she died of emphysema in 1986. My dad smoked pipes, cigars, and cigarettes all his life, but he didn't die of emphysema. He keeled over from a stroke in 1979 related to nicotine-induced blood pressure variation, I believe.

After forty years of regular tobacco use, I am finally free not only of tobacco addiction but also nicotine addiction -- the worst transition I have ever been through. Quitting smoking was nothing compared to quitting nicotine. It requires complete trust that you will eventually come through, because it feels completely hopeless.

And you do come through!!.

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