I have a neighbor who used to travel to Beijing and Shanghai on a regular basis; he said when he returned to his hotel room at night after a day of being around town, he would take off his sportcoat and the part of his shirt that was exposed was a smudged grey, the part unexposed was its usual white. Now imagine all that sh** in your lungs; now imagine your lungs after 50 years of breathing in that sh**.

I saw a doctor on TV once (I think it was on "Oprah", but don't tell anyone that) who brought lungs and other internal organs from dead people to show people what "normal" and "abnormal" looked like. He showed a non-smoker's lung who lived in a rural area. Then he held up a non-smoker's lung who lived in a major American city and contrasted them. The guy who lived in the city looked like he smoked a pack of cigarettes a day - black and stained beyond belief. Not sure why they'd be homos, but I'm glad someone's trying to deal with it.

Keith