re: “Marijuana is not harmless. The opposite is true and the evidence keeps growing“

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I've never heard of someone so addicted to cigarettes that they couldn't stop smoking to eat.

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My Father in Law and a man who worked for my grandfather were both diagnosed with early stage throat cancer. Both were told that if they quit smoking their odds were pretty good that they would survive. FIL was in 2002 and the other man was in the early 90's. Neither were willing to give it up. Both of them lasted about 1 year after being diagnosed and both of them were unable to swallow anything for the last 4 months or so of their lives...both had feeding tubes but neither tolerated the diet well and stayed nauseated and pretty much lived the last 4 months of their lives with a 24 hour stomach virus which included vomiting and diarrhea for 4 months while they withered away from malnutrition and dehydration. Both of them continued to smoke until they were both about a week from the day they died. Couldn't inhale because their throat would not tolerate it but they smoked non the less and smoked more because not inhaling was not feeding their addiction. Both of their death certificates says the cause of death was malnutrition and dehydration despite being on feeding tubes and receiving IV fluids in hospice. Neither could kick the habit of smoking, or were not willing to try, to maintain the habit they had since conception of eating. They did not need to quit smoking long enough to consume a meal, they needed to quit long enough for their throats to heal enough to swallow again. No one deserves dying like that...its no where near as glamorous as the brochure sounds,,,its far worse.