Peter Jennings was one of 170,000 Americans diagnosed with lung cancer each year. It is the most common form of cancer, responsible for 28 percent of all cancer deaths. Jennings died Sunday, at the age of 67. Treatments are few once lung cancer is diagnosed, but there is one very obvious, but often very difficult, way to reduce your risk of getting lung cancer -- quit smoking, reported WCVB-TV in Boston. News of Jennings' death has been a jolt for some smokers. "You hear about it all the time, it just never sinks in, but for some reason (Monday) it just sunk in. I've got to do something about that soon," said smoker Kraig Ravioli.I also read someplace that Christopher Reeves' wife was just diagnosed with lung cancer. Talk about life kicking you in the ass. First you have your perfect husband fall off a horse, become disabled, and slowly die. Then you get diagnosed with lung cancer, which is almost always fatal.
Don't blame Gorak for that kind of shit, because my God does not advocate making people suffer....
I need to find some stories about 92 year old ladies that are still smoking 2 packs a day.. LOL
Oh... and the reason why I was at the Free Republic is because there is a "study" published recently that showed the Free Republic as the #1 "blog" on the internet, and by a pretty wide margin. I thought that sounded odd since sitemeter shows the Daily Kos getting twice the traffic of the #2 blog, so I checked the studies methodology. It turns out they used a "participant sample" of selected internet surfers as their source data. Consequently, the study is meaningless, but that doesn't stop the wingers from beating the Free Republic drum.
If the Free Republic, or any blog, doesn't use an actual hit counter, they should not be considered for any rankings.. period.
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