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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[merel_93]

My mom died nearly 2 years ago because of this. Her only hope was a lung transplant, and she got one but it didn't work out. I'm still forever grateful she got one in the first place because my mom's last waking moment was excited and happy to get better again. There was no fear, no choking, which was her greatest fear.

[tifa333]

Uuuuuuuggggghhhhhhh. I quit in 2011 and started again when my dog died last year. I really need to quit again, and I don't smoke that much. Just a few times a week, but damn if it isn't the hardest thing to do.

[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.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Part of me gets annoyed cause my first reaction was "oh damn I hope gets better" and "yeah no shit" because a lot of them help further the cool image behind smoking.

But then there is a hypocritical part of me that also acknowledging that it does look good/cool on film and pics as a non-smoker.

But yeah pretty much all my faves that smoke I imagine will end up like this or worse.

I forgot earlier what it was but there was some tweet or a post here about smoking that got me thinking of how I use to see billboards for smoking more when I was a kid compared to now. I think the anti-tobacco industry did a pretty good in the 90s and 00s about telling people the dangers of it. Although nowadays you got the vaping industry and the like.

[pciam]

Oh yeah! I was born in 84 and even I remember the billboards of that damn cartoon Camel smoking and how “cool” he looked. A literal cartoon character smoking; ofc it struck kids eyes!

[genbu_no_miko24]

The marlboro man!! Joe Camel, Chesterfield!! Newports, KOOL!!

But I saw some people saying how they're doing the exactly same thing with vapes but they making them cute and colorful that'll appeal to kids!

[evilgerbil]

I wonder if my grandpa's smoking made me immune from thinking it looked cool. It smelled awful, it made his fingers and fingernails yellow, and it left him unable to breathe. I don't think Joe Camel stood a chance against that decrepit biological reality.

[archersangel]

A woman that was a smoker tole my Dad something like; "When you're a smoker, first you get asthma, then COPD, then you get emphysema, then cancer, then you die."
And that's what happened to her.

What's worse is people getting cancer from secondhand smoke. They never smoked a day in their lives & because they live(d) with a smoker, or worked where people were smoking, they have to deal with that.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Yep my paternal aunt died from second-hand smoke cause her dad smoked a lot. She never smoked a day in her life and my grandpa died from lung cancer.

I think Kathy Griffin got some lung issues from performing at comedy club where smoking is permitted but she herself is not a smoker.

[archersangel]

Christopher Reeve's widow Dana died about a year & a half after he did from lung cancer. She never smoked, but in her early career often sang in bars and hotel lobbies where smoking was allowed.

[mhfromnh]

makes me wonder about my own lungs, having had a parent who smoked inside and working in a restaurant back when there was a smoking section.