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[Moody's Mood]

Knock knock

Who's there?

Your wake up call.


Hope she turns her life around.

[aries_124]

Emphysema @ 24 now thats record
hope see can now see that she's not invincible :indifferent:

[Jayne]

I hope this is her rock bottom if not she may not get another chance.

[kevd7]

hoefully this will be her wake up call. I have asthma and it is a drag to say the least, having to deal with bronchodilators and such. My Granfather passed from this disease and it was so sad to see him dependant on oxygen 24/7.

Wikipedia has wasted no time adding Amy to their list of sufferers..."Notable cases of emphysema have included Ava Gardner (67),[6] Spencer Tracy (67),[7] Leonard Bernstein (72), Dean Martin (78), Samuel Beckett (83), Johnny Carson (79), T. S. Eliot (76), Tallulah Bankhead (66), Amy Winehouse (24), Dick York (63), R. J. Reynolds (67), R. J. Reynolds Jr. (58), R. J. Reynolds III (59),[8] Don Imus,[9] Ike Turner (76) and Elizabeth Dawn.

[Moody's Mood]

Check out all the ages.. 24, ouch.

[kevd7]

i know. 24 is terribly young to have this disease. maybe someone with some scientific/medical background on this can shed some light here. Awfully young.

[Jayne]

Here's a bbc article about younger people getting emphysema:

http://news.bbc.co.u...lth/6551327.stm

[aries_124]

^^ thnx for posting that,
i neva knew till now that
"three to four cannabis cigarettes a day were associated with the same amount of damage to the lungs as 20 or more tobacco cigarettes a day" .

[sarahbol]

I kind of immediately told myself that this is all made up when I read the title, but now I'm not too sure about that anymore....





- "Ex-cabbie Mitch" ?

[kevd7]

it's an interesting article, but doesn't address how some come down with it while others who use as much or more don't. My mom started smoking cigs at 15, gave 'em up at 76 and now at 83 remains cancer and emphysema free. Guess genetics are on her side.

[-Sammy-]

nooooo

im so sad, this is sad, i really hope amy tries to get of drgs i know its so hard but i dont want her to fade away. i hope she gts better and stays in hosptial a little longer

[Mimi]

(ps. was i the only one that cried reading that??????????)

I thought I was the only one..
So sad. She really needs to get better NOW.

[aries_124]

^^ yh roll ups are much less harmful than proper cigs....but roll ups are disgusting...urghhh.

[lyricgenius]

... in fact breathing in a city is bad...

When I was in London last fall, at the end of the day when I would wipe my nose with a kleenex, I noticed black smudges on the kleenex. Didn't know what was going on at first, never happened to me before. But it kept happening each day. I finally realized it must be pollution in the air--car and bus exhaust, etc. Does that make any sense? How bad is air pollution in London?