We opened up with a joke on his first name. With a gentle smile, Erphacksand Kinyua Mureithi explained that the name was handed down to him from his paternal grandfather, although it is biblical. The challenge of doing this story from an interview that Kinyua gave a month before he died, is that it has to be in the past tense. Kinyua was one of the youngest lung cancer … [Read more...] about Young Victim of Smoking Leaves Legacy for the Youth
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Changing Your Mind About Smoking
Sometimes changing one's mind at its core can be experienced in a blazing epiphany in a flash of a moment. But not often. The type of change to lose the urge to smoke generally consists of acts not monumental, but incremental. Bit by bit, piece by piece, those reasons can be removed from the subconscious. Once that's done, there is no reason left to smoke, therefore no … [Read more...] about Changing Your Mind About Smoking
Dying from Emphysema
Tobacco has taken its toll on Haines resident Jim Hamp. His wife and mother both died of tobacco-related cancers, and Hamp is dying from emphysema. A longtime charter and commercial fisherman, Hamp, 68, now has to wear a nasal cannula (a plastic hose that pumps oxygen from a tank into his nose) and rarely has the energy to visit is boat. Some days he barely has the energy … [Read more...] about Dying from Emphysema
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