{"id":5,"date":"2010-12-02T17:25:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T17:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2010-12-02T17:25:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T17:25:41","slug":"pepes-non-smoking-party-lounge-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Pepe’s Non Smoking Party Lounge explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWell, it’s the tentative return of Pepe’s Non-Smoking Party Lounge, where we talk about smoking, tobacco, cigarettes, pot, health, lung disease and whatever else pops into the scrambled eggs of our minds.<\/p>\n

One thing that will be different from the previous incarnation of The Lounge is I won’t be talking about Facebook stuff; there won’t be much personal information and I won’t be discussing local politics. That’s what Facebook is for. So, “Confederate” from Kentucky, you won’t find out much useful information about me here.<\/p>\n

Here’s my agenda in a nutshell. I lost my dad to lung cancer when I was 16. He smoked four packs a day and was 49 when he died. He smoked the day that he died, hooked up to an oxygen tank. Later that day, he drowned in his own bodily fluids.<\/p>\n

My mom has had cancer, a heart attack and for the past several years has suffered from COPD. She gets pneumonia and bronchitis every winter. COPD is almost exclusively caused by smoking. She has smoked as much as two packs a day. I figure between my mom and my dad, they have probably smoked considerably more than 1 million cigarettes in their lifetimes. To learn more about COPD, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I grew up exposed to as much as six packs a day of other people’s (mostly my parents) cigarette smoke. I estimate that I ingested the equivalent of 25,000 cigarettes by the time I turned 16. I had constant ear infections, had to have three surgeries to combat the ear infections, and to this day have trouble with my ears. I grew up with chronic bronchitis which later evolved into a kind of asthma. I got pleurisy one year and pneumonia twice. Eventually, it cleared up. I haven’t had a single bout of bronchitis in probably 15 years and now I climb mountains for a hobby.<\/p>\n

So, a few years ago, after watching my mom pawing through her luggage, desperate for a cigarette after being hospitalized for a heart attack, then begging me to stop at a store to buy her cigs as I drove her home from the hospital, then after getting word three months later she was back in the hospital with pneumonia, I decided to get more involved in anti-tobacco issues and start up an anti-tobacco blog. The blog did all right, but my readership never really got beyond the teens. I’m hopeful with more “pings” and more Internet contacts and more knowledge of how to build up readership, it will get a few more readers.<\/p>\n

We’ll see. This will be a work in progress and I really am an neophyte with WordPress, so bear with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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