This Is What Cigarettes Do To You, Warns Anti-Smoking Campaigner Hours Before Her Death

It would have been natural for Maureen Hamilton to have chosen a glamorous picture as the one by which she could be remembered. Taken 22 years ago, the cool blonde smiles easily for the camera, confident in her beauty and her jet-set lifestyle. Fast-forward two decades and the picture on the left reveals a very brave but broken woman, all the glitz and glamour pitilessly stripped away by the emphysema caused by her addiction to cigarettes. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Smoking / Quit Smoking on December 20th, 2007