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   Lynne B said, 3 months ago

   He was irascible and opinionated and I didn’t always agree with his opinions, but he was also dedicated and intelligent and genuinely cared about people’s health, and his stubbornness about that stood us all in good stead; and, many many years ago, he was the Obs/Gyn who delivered my brother.

   He will be missed.
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   edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago

   Love where the arrow’s pointing!
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   edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago

   Agree. I did not know of his evangelical background at the time, but I have always felt he put country ahead of religious or political loyalty. That is the definition of a patriot!
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   David said, 3 months ago

   @edinbaltimore

   A true evangelical will lead his life as an example without the threats of hell and segregation we hear so often today. He was quite the Surgeon General,
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   Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

   Where do you think the clouds come from? The fires of hell!
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   Omnius said, 3 months ago

   I quit smoking 11 months ago after smoking for over 40 years. No patches and no OP cigs.
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   Mhic Dhu Ghaill said, 3 months ago

   @Omnius

   Keep it up. I did the same 25OCT2000 !
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   edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago

   Ima must be related to Coast-to-Coast AM caller JC!
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   Radish said, 3 months ago

   @edinbaltimore

   Ima isn’t religious. Just likes to say the opposite to get people riled.
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    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 3 months ago

    @Omnius

    Good for ya! I wish you continued success.
    .
    I know lots of people who have quit with and without “help” And I know lots of people who have relapsed.
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    My one friend “quit” after prostate surgery. Three or four days of morphine drip and he was past the worst of the nicotene withdrawal symptoms. (the fact that his brother was forced to quit due to a failing body in his 40’s and that he had his prostate removed while in his 30’s, gave him “encouragement”)
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    My brother’s grandmother in law was interviewed for the newspaper on the occasion of her 100th birthday. She was asked the secret of her longevity and she said that she had quit smoking, her doctor told her to and so she put the pack down and never smoked again. (she was 99 at the time). Nearly her entire extended family was wiped out by cancer before she died of being ready to do so at 103.
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    My wife’s uncle, a chronic alcholic with very little self control was told by the VA doctor that those were precancerous cankers and he should come back in one month, but only if he quit smoking. He was a three pack a day man who threw the pack out the car window on the way home and never smoked again (his death of throat and mouth cancer was grizzly to the extreme. I can’t think of a worse cancer to have!)
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    His sister, my mother in law smoked, then quit, then year later took it back up again (she was never so mad at me as she was the evening with our 30 month old and I refused to let us sit in the smoking section at the restaurant. And she was good at getting mad.) It was the morphine coma she was in for 4 days after her open heart surgery that help her never smoke again.
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    Good wishes to you!
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    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 3 months ago

    @Lynne B

    Well said and ditto. (except for the “Personal friend of mine!” part you have, I can’t ditto that)
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    Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

    @edinbaltimore

    no, but I dropped edward thomas off at the pool this morning.
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    edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago

    Thanks for the lift. When are you coming in?
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    Ajax 4Hire said, 3 months ago

    Dr. C. Everett Koop is the only appointee I remember from President Reagan term.
    He is the only Surgeon General I know.
    I applaud his stand on tobacco which forever changed the attitude of cigarettes in the United States.
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    PlainBill said, 3 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    ROTFLMAO!!! Perhaps you should pay attention in school and learn where clouds come from.
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