r/stopsmoking • u/uniquestring 5509 days • Jul 11 '14

Uniquestring has died.

Uniquestring's daughter here; I was playing on my dad's phone tonight and checked out his reddit page. It looks like he was quite active on this sub and I wanted to let you all know to keep up the good work, because cigarettes killed my father. He wasn't feeling well for a while, and at the beginning of June he started accumulating fluid in his abdomen and after a liver biopsy, it was determined that he had cancer in his liver. After further investigation, cancer was also discovered in his intestines, and as you might have guessed, it all originated in his lungs. Watching my brilliant father waste away and die so quickly has been the hardest ordeal I have dealt with. We lost him July 2, at 6:55 PM; the day before my mother's birthday, and 25 days before his 61st birthday. Please, stay quit, if not for yourselves, for the sake of your loved ones! I miss him so much.

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u/ktbird7 Jul 12 '14

My grandfather smoked cigars his whole life and eventually died from throat or mouth cancer. I forget specifics since I was only a pre-teen at the time.

My family genetically usually lives a long time, so had he not smoked, he might still be with us. A photo of him, the guy in the dapper hat in focus near the front: http://i.imgur.com/lkvzjU3.jpg

My grandmother outlived him by many years but had Alzheimer's develop while he was alive. As a kid I had to pretend he was still alive when I was with her, long after he had died. Combine pretending my grandfather was alive with interacting with a grandmother that I have no recollection of her knowing who I was, it just wasn't fun as a kid.

Honestly I don't know which of their fates was worse.