Agreed. While my dad is still alive, he has all the textbook ailments from being a lifelong smoker / drinker. His quality of life is shit. His legs are swollen

Agreed. While my dad is still alive, he has all the textbook ailments from being a lifelong smoker / drinker. His quality of life is shit. His legs are swollen red tree stumps, skin is splotchy and very thin/prone to bruising/bleeding, overweight, can't walk more than a few feet without getting winded, who knows what's internal, but he spent 6 months in the hospital with a mrsa infection. Brain function is also clearly diminished. I love him a lot, but there is no way that I want to end up anything like him. Just looking at him, it was easy for me to stop drinking entirely. It is poison.