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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[imnotasquirrel]

pisses me off that smoking is making a comeback. fuckin gen z/millennials... and unlike the boomers, we don't have an excuse because at this point we KNOW it's terrible for us.

i'm an elder millennial and we knew it was bad for us then, i remember browbeating/nagging my dad into quitting lol. and i was so pissed when my brother told me he had started, i was like broooooo our grandpa died from lung cancer after years of heavy smoking, why the fuck did you even start!!

[pciam]

Yep! I’m an 84 baby so elder millennial here too. It was drilled into us that it was bad. My mom also smoked and told me to never start lol. Thankfully she finally quit too!

[deerlike]

Same! I remember getting anti-smoking hammered into me at a v young age (even before I went to school) and being really dogmatic about it, to the point that I was really obnoxious around adults in my life who smoked. But my childhood friend's dad did quit and now still lives, so I feel vindicated that I was such an annoying little brat.

[imnotasquirrel]

yeah, it was kind of a running joke in my family when my dad was still smoking, i was maybe 7-10 years old and known as the anti-smoking police. dad would sneak away to smoke a cig, mom would come to me to rat him out, and i'd run to wherever he was hiding and start berating him. (i was 9! i didn't know the art of subtlety or tact!) poor dad lmfao. but he quit, so i have zero regrets hehe. maybe he quit just so he wouldn't have to deal with my obnoxious and strident lectures.

[deerlike]

lol I was the little shit who'd hack up loudly and obnoxiously claim "I can't breathe!" whenever an adult around me lit up. Also I kept insisting to my poor friend that her dad was "going to get sick and die if he doesn't quit!" 🤦 I was a bully for the right reasons?

[silverstarry]

When I was about 6 years old, my pediatrician told me that I was allergic to cigarette smoke and it was making me sick. She then told me to ask my dad to stop smoking. Even at that age, I knew nothing was going to make my dad quit smoking. Luckily for me, my mom never allowed my dad to smoke inside the house. Even in the dead of winter, my dad would smoke outside in the snow (which was one of the many reasons I knew that he would never quit).

When I'm around cigarette smoke, I get asthma-like symptoms (wheezing, coughing) plus the overwhelming urge to vomit. It's crazy to me that elementary schools have forbidden peanut butter because there are kids with allergies but people are allowed to smoke in public and blow the carcinogenic smoke everywhere.

Since people seem to have forgotten everything that C. Everett Koop pushed into the public consciousness, secondhand smoke is more cancerous than the firsthand smoke that smokers inhale directly. Kids who have parents who smoke have a higher incidence of ear infections and other ailments