I smoked for 38 years. I began when I was 13 years old. It was cool to smoke and I wanted to be like my friends and be in the group. Today I have a scar on my back where I had to have one of my lungs cut out and replaced with a donor lung. Yes, a lung transplant. I thought smoking would never really hurt me. I was wrong. It hurt me, my wife, my children, my mother and father and my brother and sister. The emotional damage that results from smoking hurt everyone you love. My family had to see me in ICU in a hospital and almost dead because I wanted to smoke. It's just not worth it.