Study Finds Ailing and Overweight Americans Cost $153 Billion Each Year in Lost Produ

[prntrfxr]

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The government needs smokers otherwise look how much money would be lost in tax revenue at the local, state and federal levels. This is one of the few things that actually keeps all the elected officials happy.

Good thing I quit smoking. The very word government makes me laugh hysterically, so why should I give them what THEY want?

[igi]

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Good thing I quit smoking. The very word government makes me laugh hysterically, so why should I give them what THEY want?

hi how long ago did you stop?
is it getting easier?
i stopped a month ago after 25 years of smoking,still getting chills and sweats

but i determined to keep it up

[mojorolla]

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Two words: Jim Fixx. He was a fitness guy during the late 70's and early 80's. He literally started the jogging craze in this country. Guess how he died.....a heart attack WHILE JOGGING! Even if you do everything right, you still have a 50% chance of getting some form of cancer. prntrfxr's signature pretty much sums it up....

[prntrfxr]

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hi how long ago did you stop?
is it getting easier?
i stopped a month ago after 25 years of smoking,still getting chills and sweats

but i determined to keep it up

I quit 25 years ago! I don't get bothered by it too much anymore, unless I touch one. When I was in college about 15 years ago, one student lay a smoke in my textbook in lab (to keep it clean, I guess). I picked it up and asked who's it was. He took it and all the way home for the rest of the day I could have killed to have one. Shook all the way home. The act of someone lighting up sometimes affects me to this day. The smell of smoke makes me sick. I quit cold turkey and changed all my friends. Changing friends was easier. I know that sounds cruel, but it's nearly impossible to quit if someone you hang out with or live with still smokes. Too easy to get back into it. I try not to hang around people who smoke and I still feel like I need something in my mouth all the time (candy, toothpick, pen or fingers), especially after I eat. I can only imagine how hard it must be after smoking all those years. I started young and hid it from my family. It is the hardest thing to quit, but I feel better for doing it. Hang in there, buddy!

[charm5496]

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I quit 14 years ago while away at school. My mom called me and said she was going into surgery for breast cancer and when I got off the phone with her I took what I had in my pocket and threw them away. Haven't touched them since!!

[charm5496]

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Two words: Jim Fixx. He was a fitness guy during the late 70's and early 80's. He literally started the jogging craze in this country. Guess how he died.....a heart attack WHILE JOGGING! Even if you do everything right, you still have a 50% chance of getting some form of cancer. prntrfxr's signature pretty much sums it up....

You are very correct, but I feel much better every morning not having all the chemicals and crap from the cigarettes in my body. and if I get cancer I did what I could try and not get it. Too many people I know have had some form of it causing them great pain and a slow miserable death.

[mojorolla]

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The last thing we have CURED was polio. Nowadays, we seem to have a TREATMENT for everything, but no more cures. There is no money in a cure, but there is in treatment.....

[Hemlock]

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The last thing we have CURED was polio. Nowadays, we seem to have a TREATMENT for everything, but no more cures. There is no money in a cure, but there is in treatment.....

Could be that we've knocked out all the easy shit, leaving only the really difficult stuff to cure.

Semi-relevant.

[charm5496]

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The last thing we have CURED was polio. Nowadays, we seem to have a TREATMENT for everything, but no more cures. There is no money in a cure, but there is in treatment.....

There is only money in it when people actually go to the doctor and blindly take the medications for whatever it is the doctors are saying is wrong with them.