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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[fromyourashes]

my mother's got stage 4 and it's throughout her body and in her brain and the dumb bitch is still smoking
(i hate her and dgaf tbh). my brother's got emphysema from his smoking, and likely from growing up with her dumb ass smoking in the house. i smoked for about 12 years, maybe 13, and quit 20 years ago. so far, no lung issues, so i hope it stays that way.

there are people who think weed doesn't cause copd, too, but there are cases cropping up left and right of weed smokers who don't smoke cigarettes getting diagnosed with emphysema (source, my bf who's only ever used a low temp vaporizer to smoke weed, which caused me to start looking into it).

inhaling shit is dumb.

edibled are yum.

[genbu_no_miko24]

"quit 20 years ago. so far, no lung issues, so i hope it stays that way."

I remember reading the earlier you quit or whatever age, the better the chances for your lungs to heal and come off as a healthy as a non-smoker so good for you.

[fromyourashes]

i hope that's true!

[screamingintune]

when i quit smoking cigarettes I couldn't TOLERATE weed smoking anymore and switched to vaping very very quickly. smoking anything to me now is so gnarly tasting it makes me want to throw up and take a shower. i lost tolerance for it faster than i expected

[angriest_girl]

I smoked from 13 for about 20 years. I never really enjoyed it but it was a habit, and I didn’t even consciously give it up - I just kind of gradually petered out. It was so common in thee 80s and 90s - my first job I smoked at my desk. And on the train on the way to work!

It grosses me out now - I’m that arsehole who will pointedly cough if you light up next to me.

My daughter smokes and it kills me. She’s not a heavy smoker unless she’s drinking, but any is bad. I’ve been on her for years to quit. But she just moved in with her boyfriend and he’s a smoker too, so I don’t know if she will ever stop. :-(

[vaeltaa]

i tried cigarettes once as a teen and it made me so nauseous i never touched them again

[angriest_girl]

One of my cousins was made by his dad to smoke a pack at age about 8 or 9 when he was caught smoking. He had to keep going until he threw up. Parenting in the 1970s was just wild. He didn’t ever smoke after that though, nor did he die of nicotine poisoning that day, luckily.

[ginainabottle]

I haven’t smoked in 5 months and yesterday I was surrounded by smokers and barely felt tempted. I know it was a good day but damn, I feel invincible lol

Good luck to everyone who’s trying to quit ❤️

[fromyourashes]

congrats!

[screamingintune]

that's a big milestone! when i quit smoking I was in the middle of watching all of Mad Men and had to stop because literally every goddamn scene in that show is people lighting up, never ended up finishing it lol. Don sucked anyway

[deerlike]

tbh the one and only thing the US has going for it is public smoking is heavily restricted and barely exists here compared to other countries where I've lived. It's really bad everywhere else imo, smokers have no consideration for non-smokers and most adult public spaces are dominated by smoking.

[screamingintune]

very true, even Virginia's banned smoking in bars and that's literally where they grow all the tobacco

when I was a TINY kid, like, five, I remember riding on a plane with my grandparents and I sat up front with my grandma and my grandpa sat in the back in the smoking section. Like, I know it happened, I lived it literally, but I cannot BELIEVE people were hotboxing airplanes routinely at some point, jfc

[silverstarry]

I remember when California initially banned smoking in bars, restaurants, and clubs. People were claiming that it would cause all of these businesses to shut down. Fast forward almost 30 years later and whatever bars and restaurants have closed since then were definitely not due to having to go outside to smoke.

I agree that most smokers show no consideration for their smoke. They don't understand (or don't care) that not everyone wants to walk through a cloud of their disgusting smelling smoke.

My general rule of thumb in life is that I don't care what you do as long as it doesn't negatively impact other people. If you want to smoke, that's your business. But if you want to be a dick when you're smoking and force other people to breathe in your carcinogenic smoke, that's rude and an unnecessary health risk.