Anyone else get a lump when that anti-smoking PSA with Leonard Nimoy's widow comes on

[hlthe2b]

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/stories/leonard.html
Leonard Nimoy started smoking cigarettes as a teenager because he thought they were “cool.”

Leonard died of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) even though he'd quit years earlier.

That PSA is just so poignant and not just because I adored and still miss Leonard Nimoy.

Now with the vaping crisis, I worry some who quit or were about to, may not... So tragic.

[customerserviceguy]

1. Yes.

I consider smoking tobacco "illogical".

[luvs2sing]

2. I get a lump just seeing his name.

I’m sure that PSA will tear me apart.

[AirmensMom]

3. So sad.

My brother died from lung cancer almost 10 years ago after smoking for close to 50 years. Such a waste.

[virgogal]

4. Not me,I didn't know him---I have lost too many people in my own life.No lump here.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. I have lost family and friends as well

It doesn't affect my empathy, however. Even if losses in my own life precluded empathy or sympathy (is that even a thing?), I wouldn't flaunt that lack of concern as though it's a point of pride. It isn't.

[virgogal]

6. He was an actor in a show that I never saw,even once.

He died at age 83.....the ad does not give me a lump in my throat.If that implies lack of empathy, so be it.

[Cirque du So-What]

8. Even if I had never heard his name

his widow’s reactions when remembering him are emotionally evocative. You say that, because you don’t know him, you feel nothing. That is, by definition, lack of empathy - nothing implied about it. As the old saying goes regarding your lack of empathy, are you bragging or complaining?

[virgogal]

9. Neither.His widow was making a statement about the COPD that

killed him....at age 83. She was not grieving,she was trying to make a point. It did not bring a lump to my throat....I got her point.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. You've made that abundantly clear

You are indeed an iconoclast.

[MicaelS]

11. I had no idea he had COPD.

It is a very moving commercial.

[Tipperary]

12. Yes.

Very sad.

Hopefully it will do some good.

[former9thward]

13. He lived well beyond what many people live.

People who don't smoke, drink or eat meat think they will live forever. And then they are shocked when they die at the age others do.

[CreekDog]

14. wow you are speaking for everyone who dooesn't smoke, drink, or eat meat

to think you just complained about generalizing.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12487293

former9thward (21,779 posts)

53. Wow, you are speaking for the entire Millennial generation.

No thanks.

now, that was 8 days ago and perhaps now you are a completely different person.

either that you're just here to give liberals a hard time.

[former9thward]

15. Not speaking for them since I eat meat, drink and have the occasional cigar.

I have just noticed that people in that category die like the rest of us at the same general age as the rest of us and with the same type of health issues as the rest of us. So I assume they are shocked since they shove their life choices in everyone else's face at every opportunity.

Have a good day!