Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» Can you die of smoke inhalation? What we are breathing now is so much smoke we are choking on it. It will kill us won't it?
That amazes me. I shall share with you my personal experience as a cautionary tale which I know won't affect you at all. But I am OBLIGATED to tell you what I KNOW so if you don't want to read it don't.
My brother-in-law smoked for many decades. He got lung cancer (90% of lung cancers are caused by smoking) and was operated for it. When he came home he started smoking again. The cancer metastasized. It either had not all been removed or it came back. It weakened his leg bones so they started crumbling so he was operated on again and they put STEEL RODS in his thigh bones in both legs. He kept smoking. After awhile his voice box was removed and he spoke by pushing a button in his throat. The pain became so severe at the end he couldn't take enough medication to make it tolerable so he killed himself. My sister-in-law woke up one morning and went to the bathroom where she found him dead on the floor in a pool of blood. He shot himself in the head. That's not all. She died 3 years later from emphysema which was the result of living with him in his smoke-filled environment. I don't lie. If you think I made any of this up you are wrong. For your information which, as I said, will not affect what you do in any way. You had your say kg. I had mine. I will pray for you. I am deadly serious. May you continue to be alive and in good health. Thank you for your reply.
Of course you did not make that up. Things like that unfortunately happen every day. I've heard less people percentage wise smoke today than would have forty, fifty years ago. Which is a good thing . I hope "make America great again" does not mean people will go back to smoking as many of us used to do back then. Some things are better now. I am sorry for your tragic loss.
When I had cancer i mentioned to several smoker friends and a couple of them reacted "gee I should quit". Not many serious about quitting but I did hear some morbid tales about someone's friend or relative terminated from smoking related disease.
I have known people whose fear of that did cause them to quit. In one case their sister died from lung cancer. We might say well they were looking for an excuse to quit anyway but they were able to stop. I smoked for many years and I knew it was not doing me any good but once I resolved to stop it was not that difficult.
Hello thanks RosieG. I already did have 1st stage lung cancer and surgically taken out 3 years ago -no recurrence. . Lucky was discovered early by chest MRI scan. Tried (again) to quit smoking but addiction to nicotine was too overwhelming for me, even tried patches and gum. According to statistics 1 in 14 of us smokers get lung cancer but smoking can attribute to other cancers as well.
I am so sorry again for putting my judgemental foot in my arse, Kitty. I am glad for convenience sake that had you been a smoker at our prior encounters on AB I probably would have dismissed you out of hand and been denied a very smart person to talk to.
If your home catches fire Rosie and you are trapped in your home.....it's unlikely that you will burn to death.....One breath of smoke filled air is enough to kill you...The temperature of burning plastic and other combustibly materials reach temperatures above 1800 degrees Celsius......just one breath sears or cooks the inside of your lungs and you die almost instantly...:(
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