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My mom and dad smoked for a long time (before I was born) and when my mom and dad found out that my mom was pregnant with my sister, my mom and dad ended up quitting. Twenty years later, approximately, my dad started smoking again. Right before my dad died in the first week in January 2007 from alcoholic scurrosis of the liver and Hepatitus B, my dad quit smoking. Shortly after my dad died, my mom became depressed and started smoking again. In June of 2009, my mom died from non-alcoholic scurrosis of the liver.

When I found out that my mom had started smoking again after quitting for approximately twenty years, that made me mad as I have never smoked once in the twenty-seven years and counting that I have been alive. I did get mad at my dad but I wasen't as mad as I was with my mom because I didn't live with my dad but I did live with my mom. I saw my mom smoking more than I saw my dad smoking. When I did see my dad smoking, it did make me mad.

I just thank God that my sister doesn't smoke because if she ever decided to start smoking, that would make me mad, too.

I have a aunt that lives in Salem, Oregn and a aunt that lives in Redwood City, California and they both smoke. I don't see them that often and when I do see them, it does make me mad, but being that I don't see them that often (because they live far from where I live in Wilsonville, Oregon), I try not to let their smoking get to me.

My grandfather (mom's dad)'s cousin lives in Chico, California and he smokes at least three to four pack of cigarettes a day. One day my grandfather's cousin's wife called him and told him that the cousin has lung cancer and when my grandfather asked her if he was going to quit, she told him that the cousin told her that the damage was already done and so why quit.

If I had it my way, smoking tobacco, chewing tobacco and any other form of tobacco would be illegal just like marijuana is illegal, not just on state level but on the federal level.