Doctors giving you a hard time about smoking

It really frustrates me that a man about to put you under the knife felt the need to "preach" to you about cigar smoking. As if you didn't have enough on your mind as it was. The most he should of said concerning cigars would be that nicotine may slow down the healing process due to white cell count etc. This is not a time to change a persons habits with scare tactics.

Leave it to some holier than thou delicate genius to use this tact. When I had my back surgery a few weeks ago I didn't mention the cigar smoking. I did however mention that I had a few (or more) drinks of Jameson a week. It's funny how they never preach to a person about drinking, but God forbid you light up a premium cigar once in a while.

When I was an (uneducated) young fella I used tell my pop not to smoke cigars because my teacher said they were bad for him and they will end up killing him. He would say "How willa I get ta heaven ifa I don'ta die-a" in very broken Italian English.

I'm very glad your surgery went well, Christian. Get well soon and prayers going out for a speedy recovery.

Here is some interesting reading concerning this topic:

http://www.stogiefresh.com/journal/C...igarettes.html