Doctors giving you a hard time about smoking

Tenor CS · 02-20-2009, 06:33 PM

Many of you know I had surgery today. When the anesthesiologist came in to talk to me, one of his questions was "Do you smoke?"

I answered, "Yeah, I smoke an occasional cigar, maybe 1-3 per week."

His reply: "Oh, come on man!" Followed by reading me the riot act and calling cigars "death sticks."

Granted, I am grossly overweight, and I have high blood pressure. But my General Practitioner (the one who put me on the high blood pressure meds) is perfectly ok with it, my brother in law is an emergency room doctor and a fellow BOTL, and one of my colleagues at work is an MD and agrees that the occasional cigar will not likely do me any major harm.

So, have any of you other guys or gals been given a hard time by your doctor(s) re: your smoking?

02-20-2009, 06:33 PM	#1
Tenor CS Feeling Better! Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Christian Location: Davenport, FL (near Orlando) Posts: 717 Trading: (2)	Doctors giving you a hard time about smoking Many of you know I had surgery today. When the anesthesiologist came in to talk to me, one of his questions was "Do you smoke?" I answered, "Yeah, I smoke an occasional cigar, maybe 1-3 per week." His reply: "Oh, come on man!" Followed by reading me the riot act and calling cigars "death sticks." Granted, I am grossly overweight, and I have high blood pressure. But my General Practitioner (the one who put me on the high blood pressure meds) is perfectly ok with it, my brother in law is an emergency room doctor and a fellow BOTL, and one of my colleagues at work is an MD and agrees that the occasional cigar will not likely do me any major harm. So, have any of you other guys or gals been given a hard time by your doctor(s) re: your smoking? __________________ When the world itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?