My dad smoked cigarettes from age 18 until his triple-bypass heart surgery in his mid 40’s.

[kanamauna@sauropods.win]

@paninid
Hmm, this puts some context on the nonsense a relative was spewing to me about sunlight and skin cancer.

[paninid@mastodon.world]

@Kierkegaanks

Two arteries were completely blocked, and the third 80%.

[hans_zelf@mas.to]

@paninid And the Darwin award goes to....

[ginkka@mastodon.social]

@paninid exactly my thoughts

[msbellows@c.im]

@paninid @Kierkegaanks When I was a kid, it was almost a given that every man had bypass surgery and every woman died of lung cancer. The elimination of smoking was absolutely transformative.

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@msbellows @paninid I was not hot for the idea of bypass given they’d cut up my sternum and splay my ribcage

[msbellows@c.im]

@Kierkegaanks @paninid Plus the leg incision reportedly hurt worst of all.

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@msbellows @paninid for a bypass?

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@paninid @msbellows oh! Right!

[msbellows@c.im]

@Kierkegaanks @paninid That's where they harvest the donor vein.