Actress - June Brown....

[vittorio]

Hmm, we hear that Actress June Brown who is now 93 is leaving " EastEnders" TV show , who has been a SMOKER FOR ALL THESE YEARS …-. how did she escape our COPD at her age , when so many give up smoking well over , half her age .any answers , or has she been exceedingly lucky ? …. !....

[jmsutt73]

Hi Vittorio, Who know? A friend's grandmother gave up smoking at age 98 years, not because of health reasons but cost. She lived several more years, well past a century. J

[sassy59]

That’s the way it goes it seems vittorio. I knew a man who smoked well into his 90’s.

Hope you’re doing as well as you can be. Xxxx

[hypercat54]

I have heard around a quarter of smokers get copd, and about half of them have smoking related issues. That still leaves around half who don't. The problem is you don't know which half you fall into until too late.

I knew a man who smoked for 61 years with no problems until he was 78 then overnight he was diagnosed with very severe copd followed by terminal lung cancer a month later. He died a few weeks after. All smokers play Russion roulette with their health. x

[RoadRunner44 in reply to hypercat54]

You couldn't have put it any better hypercat54. Hit or miss, luck, call it what you will but who will be the ones who get it? Who knows? But sometimes we have a choice and the answer? Well, we all know the answer to that, don't we?

[Hidden in reply to hypercat54]

I used to know people who smoked but said they didn’t inhale, a pretty useless exercise I would have thought. I wonder if that would have made any difference.

[hypercat54]

Well if were all perfect we wouldn't be human!😁😁x

[Hacienda in reply to hypercat54]

"I'm only Human After All" Don't put the blame on me !

I was Told My emphysema COPD, was Genetic & Smoking related. My Mum in Law & my Friend who stopped smoking the same time as I did, 6 years ago, She Still can run about without any Lung Problem. Where as, My own Mother never smoked, lived to 89. We are all so Different, until we get a Lung Condition. It is a Case of Hit & Miss. xxx Well Done June Brown, I wish her every Bit of Happiness & Enjoyment in her Retirement, carry on Smoking Love. XXXX

[beech]

As we’re so “special”, we should definitely stand a chance of winning the lottery - given how the luck of the draw must work in our favour sometime!

[corriena]

Luck !

[Izb1]

I wonder if they took some of June's dna and put it into a person with bad copd it would help them? although my mum smoked like a trooper until she went into the hospice and she died at almost 88 and only had a cough, who knows x

[Lulu9]

She puffed not inhaled , so I read somewhere, not everybody gets copd or cancer I have both, my husband smokes all the time and drinks alot, nothing wrong with his lungs, we smokers are the out casts, what I do is my choice