| her house, it was just completely smelling like cigarettes. There would
be babies running around, kids running around. No one was really concerned.
They smoked when they were pregnant. It was really bad. They were addicted
and I guess their addiction went further than their responsibility to their
child or their love for their child. It's really sad."
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"My name is Eddie Hornsby. I'm 21. I used to smoke.
I started when I was about 15 years old. I was in high school. It was
about 10th grade. I thought it was cool, all the cool kids smoked. Then
one day my mother found out that I smoked and I remember sitting across
from the table and she just started crying, and it hurt my feelings so
much to see my mom so upset. She was a smoker. So she quit smoking because
she found out that I was smoking and then, from that, I quit smoking too.
My uncle has lung cancer. He's 47 and he knows he's going to die,
but it just hasn't hit him yet. But its hit his family!"
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"My name is Bill Stone. I'm 50 years old. I started
smoking when I was in the military. And then it just kept getting worse
and worse and worse. I've tried to quit but you wake up in the middle
of the night and your sucking on a cigarette. It's really, really terrible.
I used to drink a lot. I used to smoke pot. I was able to stop doing that.
I've done heroin. I've been able to stop doing that. The only thing I
can't get off is these damn cigarettes. At times I'll have a cigarette
and I'll be embarrassed because I'm smoking but I need the cigarette.
It's terrible to really need something like that! I was one of those people
that would say, "Oh cigarettes, I can quit anytime I want!"
There are types of work that I can't do now because I smoke. It would
be a terrible thing if they asked me to run up these stairs in this building
to save somebody because I smoke cigarettes, I can't do that. I get
shortness of breath, pains in my chest, you get this nasty taste, I cough
up phlegm, but I'll still get up and smoke a cigarette. I'll be sitting
up there and my chest be hurting so bad that I can hardly breathe, but
I'll reach over there and I'll light one of them up. Like I have no control,
you know, and it's getting worse! I know that stale cigarettes taste nasty
but I'll stoop so low as to smoke a cigarette that's been sitting on my
desk for six months if that's the only thing that's available. I'll get
up in the middle of the night and find me a store that's open so I can
get me some cigarettes. It's got so much control over me! I used to drink
alcohol every day and smoke cigarettes. I used to smoke cigarettes when
I got high with other substances and those substances I've been able to,
as I
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