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I lost my beloved Godmother, my mother's sister, to a heart attack at age 49. She was a 4 pack a day smoker, and so was her husband.
I lost my dear father at age 66 to small cell lung cancer - the kind smokers get; he picked up the habit during WWII, when cigarettes were included in government rations. He tried to quit, but was not successful. It was one of the very few comforts he had while he continued his difficult physical labor, as he suffered war injuries that plagued him (multiple purple hears, Bronze Star with Valor). He was a wonderful father who sacrificed so much for our mother and we four kids.
Grandfather, smoker, had a heart condition and multiple strokes which left him completely paralyzed.
And so on.

I never smoked, but I was around so much second hand smoke. I have asthma and mild COPD. The medicine is VERY expensive!