mberkley@watdcsu.UUCP (J.M.Berkley - Computing Services) (10/19/86)
In article <1196@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes: >A detail was left out of the description of Hospice brand cigarettes. >They come in two varieties: one for normally dying patients, and the other >for those dying in oxygen tents. > >(My maternal grandmother died of emphysema in an oxygen tent: she probably >would have smoked there if she could have.) Sorry to change this tongue-in-cheek article to something more serious, but my mother did smoke after she went onto oxygen. She continued to smoke for two or three years, a nasal canula in her nose and a cigarette in her hand. The only think that stopped her was that the health ministry in British Columbia had a policy of cutting off all monetary support for her oxygen if she was still going to smoke. $450 a month convinced her to quit smoking finally, after emphysema, ulcers, chronic bronchitis, epilepsy (caused by a prolonged period of hypoxia - due to decreased lung capacity), etc. None of that convinced her. Tell that to the young teenager who starts smoking because of peer pressure. Mike Berkley