David Lynch Started Smoking at Age 8 - Now He Needs Oxygen to Walk: 'It's a Big Price to Pay'

[queenursula]

David Lynch Started Smoking at Age 8 - Now He Needs Oxygen to Walk: 'It's a Big Price to Pay' (Exclusive) https://t.co/kChWuWDixg
- People (@people) November 14, 2024
David Lynch started smoking at the age of 8. “A big important part of my life was smoking,” says Lynch. “I loved the smell of tobacco, the taste of tobacco. I loved lighting cigarettes

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[pciam]

When I was younger, I saw a family friend suffering from emphysema and still smoking. It broke my heart. I can’t imagine how difficult it is going through life struggling to breathe well.

It definitely is something a lot of us don’t think about and take for granted so I am glad he’s trying to warn others to not go down the same path or to quit while they can.

My mom was a smoker from her teenage years and finally quit about 10-15 years ago. I never thought I’d see the day where she quit, and I was so proud of her when she finally did because she used to smoke a pack+ per day.

Smoking was just so incredibly common for pre-millennial generations.

[yousaidlog]

My grandma continued to smoke when she had throat cancer. It was wild.

[croakvegas]

Stories of people whose health has been destroyed by cigarettes and still smoking are dreadful.

My mum used to work as a radiation therapist - when I was young she came home one day and told me she'd seen a cancer patient smoking a cigarette using their trach hole outside the hospital entrance as she left work that day. The horror of that mental image has quite literally been enough to prevent me from ever smoking a cigarette in my life.

[pciam]

Oh wow!

[yousaidlog]

I remember seeing someone do that in an anti-smoking video at school. Horrifying.

[slmader]

My mom died from emphysema three weeks after her 62nd birthday. When we were cleaning out her things we found half smoked cigarettes. She was a nurse and knew how bad it was for her. She just couldn't quit completely.

[pciam]

I’m sorry for your loss ♥️🫂