I watched a film about the life of Leonard Berstein. Smoking.

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The movie is very interesting. I recomend it to everyone that loves music. But besides that, what shocked me although I was for years a heavy smoker was that he seemed to start the day smoking and ended it the same way. I have seen many people from my generation die from lung cancer. I, myself, started to smoke very early in my life because it was "cool". At first I did not smoke much because my allowance was meager. But when I started to date my husband who had what, for me then , was a lot of money (he was then a pro soccer player) he always brought a pack of ciggies to my home when he visited and seemed to left the rest on the living room table. It was his loss I never kept them to return them to him. My friends were as poor (as ciggies went) and many times we bought a pack between 4 or 5 of us and they had to last until our parents gave us our allowance the next week. So I then became the rich one of my group at my BF expense. He did not smoke much but he brought them as a gallant gesture. Almost 40 years later, in his death bed, the only thing he asked me was to stop smoking. And I did, a few years later, when I discovered that it was either smoking or going to holidays for me. I never thought of health reasons until I had cancer and the MRI showed that I had an emphysema. I wish you, smoking friends here, to quit as a 2024 goal. It can be done. Ciggies are drugs. You get addicted to them. It is NOT a habit.