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My ex father-in-law drinks a fifth of scotch a day, and is fit as a  
fiddle at 90.  He drives, holidays, and babysits his grands.

It's a marvel of pickling, really.


On Oct 30, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> > > Now I am glad I never took up the habit.
>
> We recently celebrated my father's 81st birthday.  All my uncles, all
> Herself's uncles, my FIL, who smoked are dead, almost everyone of  
> them of tobacco
> induced cancer of some sort.  My father quit when he was 38 years old.
>
> Like you, I've never smoked, never used tobacco in any form.  If  
> pressed for
> a reason I suppose I'd say that it's nasty stuff and I never  
> overcame the
> revulsion enough to see the other side of it.  Yet, Jeanne, do you  
> not also recall
> the rationalization you heard in the 50's and 60's ..... "when your  
> number's
> up, it's up!  I know someone who died of this or that and they never  
> smoked a
> day in their life.  My grandpa lived to be some ghastly old age ...  
> like 61
> .... and smoked every day of his life!"   Yet here at the end, all  
> the (at
> least) men I know personally who are healthy and are past 70 years  
> old are
> non-smokers.  The rest are dead.   The statistics are a slam dunk.
>
> Alas, today's problem is obesity, and today's people have the same  
> penchant
> for denial that smokers had in 1955.
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