~ live while dying- because we are all, technically, doing both at once
A study published in BioMed Central shows that those who quit smoking within two years after being diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease had lower risks of mortality compared with consistent smokers
When I get invited to, say, speak at universities, I'm not sure if they are inviting Duke or Thompson
Interestingly, a number of analyses of recall suggest that many phenomena ranging from intensity of pain (Stone, Broderick, Shiffman, & Schwartz, 2004) and craving (Shiffman et al., 2006), to frequency of urination (Homma et al., 2002) and headaches (Van Den Brink, Bandell-Hoekstra, & Abu-Sadd, 2001 ) are exaggerated in recall, due to memory biases that make the experience being studied more salient and result in its exaggeration
Digging deeper into the data, the number of American adults smoking is the smallest in the 75 years Gallup has tracked it