buyer beware 3 smoking lung cancer: hope you can quit smoking, by V. OFlynn, Creative Commons 2.5

My mother was a heavy smoker. When my mother was dying of lung cancer in palliative care, I made a number of sketches of her. I could not look at the sketches for several years, and then I created a silkscreen about loss called "Never Easy". This animation is based on the image from that print. My mother died of lung cancer in 1993; it took me another 6 years to successfully quit smoking myself. "Buyer beware" is released under the Creative Commons Canada 2.5 license, some rights reserved. (It also appears in a longer video "Up in Smoke")
Val O'Flynn
http://www.webgenus.com/voflynn/

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• lung cancer
• smoking
• quit smoking
• creative commons license
• Emphysema
• palliative care
• Quit
• dying from lung cancer
• Stratford
• Stratford Ontario
• animation

[homebuiltindoorplane]

@goodbadugliest To all who drink bleach, KEEP IT UP! It is legal, its is YOUR choice! Dont let these Anti Bleach Chugging Nazis, worm their way into our society any more. BTW I do not chug bleach, I just LOVE FREEDOM!!

PS: Goodbadugliest is an IDIOT!!! Got it? GOOD!

[webboffin]

I quit almost 7 years ago. Never touched one since.

[fgargallo]

I am reading a Allen carr easy way , great book, most successful of quit smoking books !

[stebean1]

Im in the process of quitting using Varenicline. cigarettes are evil. I wish I fully understood that before I ever picked up a cigarette.

[geremdu85]

fuckkkkkk iwish you nobody have cancer!

[Ravenna76]

My mum died from lung cancer in 2004 - she looked like the drawing when she'd passed over - it was horrendous!!! :(

[Crazziesrhere]

3...

Dude quite us Americans help others and don't base us off stereotypes Americans help one another and what country doesn't have rude people and overweight so honestly the only reason we get involved in wars is that we like helping other countries so give me some real complaints about America then talk some more and also u don't ever see Americans dissing other countries so see America is full of caring people

[thebeautifulpeople5]

wow... that sounds like my mom breathing too... and sometimes I hear that on myself... I QUIT! excellent video, thank you for opening my eyes. seriously.

[paul8246]

i quit successfully 11 year ago

[3axolotl]

.......i bet, you're all american and hypocritical idiots anyway.....postoffice - car.....pint of milk - car - taking a fart - car - mum dying - take a video (!!!)...war ? - we just mix in and wer're RIGHT ANYWAY and ANYWHERE.... I really hope, you americans stop sobbing soon....but it's the only thing you're good at :-)))))

[mlongpre100]

smoking is natures way of culling the herd of stupid people

[korynnleefx]

@homebuiltindoorplane Perhaps not the most eloquent way of putting his sentiment, no, but ultimately, sure. It is an individual choice. And with all of the information we have available to us, I believe truly and honestly that making an informed decision about what you're going to put in your body is the only regulation this should have.