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He was 57 years old with diabetes since the age of 18, served in the troops for 6 years. Was a victorious salesperson for a familiar company in the lumber industry. He had started smoking at 18 with little condition risk at the time and without knowing what the time to come would hold prolonged to smoke after that first cigarette.

Over the years, he had stopped smoking a few times with being victorious when he did quit. As thing becomes upsetting in his life, he would turn back to smoking for the potential to calm down. As he thought, smoking would help with stress and anxiety that was in the life. As time went on, he prolonged to smoke. At the age of 42, he had a major heart assault ending up with five by passes and pacemaker for the heart. As everybody knows smoking is not good for the health. Doctors would tell him all the time this. He would hear of smoking stories.

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His regular doctor after years of preaching the non-smoking catchword and said, "I see your mother could not get you to stop smoking, so I guess I won't be able to either.

Ten years went on with him cutting down smoking, roughly quitting, found him once again with more condition problems. As being a diabetic, the right leg was losing feeling and the toes were turning colors. He had gangrene in the toes and to have all of them amputated. Life for him, he thought, was getting best now and yes continues to smoke but again less. doctor prescribed some anxiety pills to help with the depression and anxiety going on in his life at that time. This did help with cutting down the whole of cigarettes a day but he continued.

Two years later, he had a stroke that paralyzed his right side, sending him to a nursing home for a month to recover. Salvage was quick as he was all the time strong and did a great job at the recovery. Only to get out to smoke, smoking I think by now had become his passion. In addition, the smoking stories have not stopped him. The years went on and the condition was stable until his foot, the right one that had the toes amputated had gangrene having the leg removed just below the knee. From there the condition went done. Each day things become more difficult with only one good leg.

Couple of years later he ended up with rotor cup surgery, which after several weeks he had a major heart assault as that led to congestive heart failure. Within the policy of 3 years, the condition went down. He went blind, without getting up and thoughprovoking a lot the lungs would diminish leaving congestive heart. Not eating properly, excising some on a regular basis, left him very ill and helpless. On December 28, 2005, Ken died in his home with smoking his last cigarette about 4 hours before he died. Ken never did give the smoking up even when condition and life got best or worse.

He all the time told me he would die smoking and he did.

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