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[cuppabillytea]

Because you rub them too hard.

[rick130]

Why do nurses smoke so much?

Stress.

Although my ex only smoked when she drank, absolutely hated it otherwise, so that was habit.

How does that work?

[JDNSW]

My wife spent her last month in the respiratory ward of the Alfred in Melbourne, suffering from a rare genetic lung disease. But except for one cystic fibrosis and one asthma, all the other cases in the ward were smoking related. And every nurse in the ward admitted to being a heavy smoker.

[cuppabillytea]

My wife spent her last month in the respiratory ward of the Alfred in Melbourne, suffering from a rare genetic lung disease. But except for one cystic fibrosis and one asthma, all the other cases in the ward were smoking related. And every nurse in the ward admitted to being a heavy smoker.

That is really sad, on many in many respects John.
My Dad died of respiratory illness. Tuberculosis as a child, (which he overcame), asthma, which he overcame by becoming a champion rower, and then during the war in the Air Force, he took up smoking and continued to smoke until he was 65 when he had a mild Heart Attack.
When he was 79 the Tuberculosis revisited. He was put in isolation and given a powerful and debilitating course of drugs, which are minatory for TB. That coupled with Emphysema, was too much for his ticker and he died shortly after his 80th Birthday in Balmain Hospital.
It is terrible to watch and unimaginably terrible to suffer, a death by slow asphyxiation.

[Fifth Columnist]

Stopped smoking seven years ago. Best thing I ever did.
I've got soooooo much more money!

[trog]

Stopped smoking seven years ago. Best thing I ever did.
I've got soooooo much more money!

Yep more cash for beer 🍻

[JDNSW]

......
It is terrible to watch and unimaginably terrible to suffer, a death by slow asphyxiation.

Jane died while waiting for a match for a lung transplant, three years after diagnosis. And in the end it was a relief.

[Eevo]

melb airport sucks. the drinking place is 10min walk from the gate.

[trog]

Be prepared , take a pocket bottle

[Homestar]

melb airport sucks. the drinking place is 10min walk from the gate.

Flying Jetstar or Tiger were you? You need a packed lunch to get to some of those gates...