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Just 10 more years..

Just 10 more years..
My father passed away 8 months ago due to complications that he suffered after being diagnosed with lung cancer.

My dad died 3 days after being diagnosed.

My dad died 3 days after being diagnosed.
My dad was only 60. He died May 15th, 2009, just 3 days after being diagnosed with extensive small cell lung cancer which had spread to his liver and his bones.

Emily's Law-A Child's Right To Breath

Emily's Law-A Child's Right To Breath
My Stepdaughter is 11 years old and I am writing on her behalf- her Mother smokes cigarettes in the car with her in it and she won't let her roll the window down.

if you smoke please read

if you smoke please read
hi my name is peter, i started smoking when i was eleven, when i was fourteen my father died of a heart attack, he had smoked all his adult life and was only fifty two when i lost him, i still miss him.

Hiding It

Hiding It
my parents smoke and my sister still does not know..

the letter i sent to the govenor

the letter i sent to the govenor
For everyone to Get through Life we need someone there by our side.

My mother started at 15 years old

My mother started at 15 years old
I am both an educator and the daughter of two smokers. Three years ago my mother, Miriam Dwan Hoffman, died of lung cancer after nearly a lifetime of smoking.

My father started smoking when he was six

My father started smoking when he was six
My father died of lung cancer in Ohio five years ago.

I grew up in the Marlboro generation

I grew up in the Marlboro generation
I grew up in the Marlboro generation. I was a quiet studious teenager. Smoking seemed cool and grown up to me it was the thing my friends would least expect me to do.

Life Cut Short

Life Cut Short
My sister-in-law died at the age of 46 from lung cancer after decades of smoking.

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