Thanks for the story, Larry. I'm very sorry for your loss, but I'm afraid that you, your father, and many others who have suffered similarly can do nothing to change smokers. We've been trying to show people it was extremely harmful as well as unsavory since the 1600's. It didn't work then and it doesn't work now. People just refuse to understand what they are doing. There was a guy who used to work at the base library who was always telling people about his emphasima. And everyday, when I went there, he'd be outside smoking away. This man had been in WWII and as Tom Brokaw says "Helped save the world" but still couldn't stop smoking. Similarly, I had a relative who had emphasima, who had to wear an oxygen maskjust to breath, and who used to take it off so he could light up. But smokers just roll their eyes at us, and tell us to stop our whining. I wonder who invented the cigarette? I wonder who said "I think I'll roll up this smelly leaf in some paper, catch it on fire, put it in my mouth, and inhale smoke."? Did you know that nicotine is a natural poison created by the tobacco plant to kill bugs that might try to eat it's leaves? It really makes me wonder.

--Mbo