Subj : Re: Smoking
To   : Dale Shipp
From : Dave Drum
Date : Fri May 26 2023 05:11:00

-=> Dale Shipp wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> A large part of my respiratory woes comes from a 45 year 2-packs per
 DD> day cigarette habit. My croaker, several years ago, showed me a print
 DD> out of CAT scan of my lungs. It looked like someone had spilled coarse
 DD> ground pepper in the page. Island of calcium scarring from the
 DD> nicotine addiction.

 DS> I was a bit luckier than you.  I started smoking at age 15 or 16 and
 DS> quit at age 45.  I don't really recall if I was getting symptoms or
 DS> not, but simply decided it was time to quit -- plus, where I was
 DS> working was going smoke-free and I would have had to walk up to 1/2
 DS> mile to get to an outdoor smoker's area.

I have trouble understanding why tobacco is permitted at all. It contains, 
after all, one of the deadliest poisons known to exist. Still, fortunes 
have been made from peddling that poison as a beneficial products other
than a deadly chemical.

https://tinyurl.com/SMO-KOUT

 DS> Nicorett and some sort of red chewing gum helped a lot.  I am now smoke
 DS> free for almost 40 years.  Where we live is a smoke free campus /
 DS> community and so it would not be an option now.

During my best attempt to uit smoking tobacco I almost wore a hole in
the front of my shirts reaching for that pack of Camels that wasn't 
there. It took being in a coma for a week to finally get the nicotine
out my body and reduce the physical cravings. But I still found myself
reaching for the cancer sticks for a year or more afterward.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Baked Camel
 Categories: Game, Seafood, Poultry, Fruits, Eggs
      Yield: 1 Party
 
      1 lg Camel; gutted, skinned
      2 lg Sheep; gutted, skinned
      4 lg Turkeys; plucked, gutted
     20 lg Carp; gutted, scaled
    200 md Sea-Gull eggs; hard cooked
    400 lg Dates
           Banana leaves
 
  Cook the eggs, peel them. Scale off the carps. Fill the
  carp with the dates and the eggs. Fill the turkeys with
  the carp. Fill the sheep with the turkeys. Fill the
  camel with the sheep.
  
  Dig a large mould, give in about 500 kilos of charcoal
  and light them. Wrap the camel in the banana leaves and
  give into the mould. Cover with earth and bake for two
  days.
  
  Serve with rice.
  
  From: http://www.recipesource.com
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
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