Beautiful Smokers

Smokers are beautiful people.

Youthful and sexy, rebellious and curvy. Smoke wafts from their voluptuous lips like steam from a hidden hot springs.

Until the carcinogenic smoke fatally mutates their cells.

I took care of a smoker last week. At the fossilized age of 57, she gave up a productive career to treat her lung cancer with chemo and radiation. They thought they got it all.

I was with her on Friday when the Doctor told her the cancer had spread to multiple areas of her brain.

She would pass soon.

"I can deal with what the Doc's saying," she said. "I just don't know how my oldest daughter's going to cope with this."

Smokers are beautiful people.