Just 10 more years..
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
By: Pauilne Wills

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.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
By: Jessica Walker

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
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
By: Julie Bumgarner

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
Thursday, August 6, 2009
By: peter hogan

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
Sunday, July 12, 2009
By: Jordan Eggleston

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

the letter i sent to the govenor
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
By: donovan smith

For everyone to Get through Life we need someone there by our side.

My father started smoking when he was six
Monday, June 1, 2009
By: Diana Mackey

My father died of lung cancer in Ohio five years ago.

Life Cut Short
Monday, June 1, 2009
By: Bobbi Bresson

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

My father survived Pearl Harbor but couldn't survive smoking
Monday, June 1, 2009
By: Laurie Haley

My father, a WWII veteran and survivor of Pearl Harbor, passed away a year ago, suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease due to smoking for some of his life.

My mother started at 15 years old
Monday, June 1, 2009
By: Nancy Hoffman

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.

I lost my mom and my best friend
Monday, June 1, 2009
By: Bonnie MacQuarrie

My mother was only 68 years old when tobacco use took her life. She had smoked cigarettes for over 50 years and had always suffered from "bronchial" ailments but I never knew the underlying cause.

My mother started smoking in the 30's when it was cool
Monday, June 1, 2009
By: Donna Clontz

My mother started smoking as a teenager back in the 1930's when it was cool and sophisticated to be a smoker.

My wife was lost to me far too young
Monday, June 1, 2009
By: Christopher Gresham

My first wife started smoking at 18 while in school in England, and was a lifelong smoker.

I grew up in the Marlboro generation
Monday, June 1, 2009
By: Suzanne Williams

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.

My grandmother's lung cancer was so horrible, she took her own life
Monday, June 1, 2009
By: Allison Edwards

When I was born almost 30 years ago, I had three grandparents who smoked: my maternal grandfather, and paternal grandfather and step-grandmother.

Why Did God take Kathy so Young at age 52
Sunday, May 31, 2009
By: Thomas Driscoll

Why is it that the people who do so much for others are stricken with this rotten disease?? I wonder how these senators, congressmen, and other lawmakers would vote in regards to these Clean Air bills if they suffered the losses we have suffered and felt the pain that we feel.

Suicide
Saturday, May 30, 2009
By: Kim Duprey

My husband chewed Copenhagen for 30 years, sometimes up to 3 cans per day.

A pharmacist's story
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
By: Anonymous

I have lost my dad to esophageal cancer due to many years of smoking. But now, I am devastated to learn that my 18-year old son has been smoking for several years already.

An epidemiologist, a friend and mother
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
By: Diana Maier

AS A MOTHER: I have experienced the unexpected and difficult loss of our daughter's sitter/nanny, due to lung cancer.

Family history of smoking, influence & death
Sunday, May 24, 2009
By: Mary Meek

Being around family members who smoked strongly influenced me to smoke even as a young child. I had my first cigarette when I was in 4th grade, but never really picked up the habit until I was in 8th grade. I smoked on and off through my years in school. During and after my senior year is when it really became a true addiction.