Charm, I read your post about "flowers in your hair."We were hippies and also wore "flowers in our hair." We lived in SF and were part of the summer of love 1967. Richard smoked cigarettes from the age of 13 to 23, pack a day Lucky Strikes. In the fifties, many boys started smoking early. At 23, pot was so plentiful it was easy to quit cigarettes and switch over. He stopped pot about 30yrs ago. Since this diagnosis, we have suspected that the 20 years of combo smoking ultimately is the cause for this cancer. We'll never know for sure, but it's a good bet. The price is being paid for the past when everything seemed possible and we were all invincible.