I smoked for 37 years and enjoyed most of them,never got the morning spit chunkys or bad coughing as like Klinton I did not inhale........I did however have heart surgery in 1971 and had the corner of my heart patched near the aorta,still smoked,was not overly pudgy and life was good.Three almost four years ago I was working on a vehicle in the yard and got rust in my eyes from the under carriageand had to go to emergency room to get it removed.I had horrible high blood pressure,over 200 top and 100 on bottom and they said get some tests done while you still can
After failing numbers of tests and a phone call with results that I would have another heart attack I crushed the pack I had open and never touched another.Did not have a heart attack it turned out but scared the shit out of me.In the last three plus years I saved enuff during the gunz and ammoz shortages of supply and overpricing spent about $10,000 (EXTRA) on weapons and ammunition just from the cigarete funds.In December 08 I had the aortic valve and left mitral valve replaced,I am happy to be living as they said I would never lived another six months without a stroke or heart attack and I never looked back