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My name is Jay…I will be 31 in June, and I was diagnosed with Bullous Emphysema in mid-March, 2007. I quit the day I heard the diagnosis, and, like Shirley, I have not looked back.
I became a heavy smoker soon after starting smoking at age 15 or so (cannot exactly remember when I began). Like everyone else, I imagine, I presumed the effects of smoking would hit me decades later, and I had plenty of time to kick the habit. For someone who prides himself on his intellectual abilities, I c...Read the full article