I *HATE* *HATE* *HATE* smoking!!!! When people around me smoke, I get SOOOOOOOOOOOOO sick and really feel like vomiting. Thankfully, both my parents don't smoke, and never have, nor do any of my siblings/cousins/and definitely not myself! I do have two uncles though, who do smoke. They are *not* allowed to smoke in our house under any circumstances though, and this rule has been enforced since we got the birds, since it can really make a bird sick and can even be fatal if exposed to second-hand smoke too much. Whenever my uncles come, we and our cousins (his kids) constantly plot against his cigarrettes and hide them from him. He never finds them and gets furious, but at least it works in keeping him from smoking! It breaks my heart of what my two uncles are doing to their health. My uncle is probably like 5 years younger than my dad, but he looks at least 15 years older! When he walks, you can definitely see he has trouble breathing. He refuses to go to the doctor because he can't accept the facts of what he's doing to himself. My other uncle isn't even allowed to smoke in his own house, which is good because I can sleep peacefully when visiting them without feeling sick, but I *hate* hugging my uncles goodbye at the airport whenever they're leaving after a visit, because their clothes STINK! Ugh. LOL (never told them that though ) Anyhow, I HATE HATE HATE smoking more than anything in the world, and if the law were in my hands, I would ban smoking period, in the country, or on the entire planet.

Ps. Anna66, did you succeed in completely stopping your smoking?