Defamer
When we watched the last season of The Sopranos, we remember watching Johnny Sack freely smoke cigarettes in his hospital gown despite having terminal cancer and feeling completely indifferent. One more of Tony's adversaries going down in a puff of smoke was, in the context of the show, actually something to smile about. But seeing the cancer-stricken visage of Patrick Swayze doing the same thing? Frankly, it guts us. At this point, we're not sure whether to watch the last scene of Dirty Dancing over and over again while fighting back tears or to hop a plane to wherever Swayze is at the moment and personally pluck the cig from his lips. Seen here post-diagnosis, it seems Swayze just can't kick the habit, no matter how brutal it is on his body:
"Pals say he can't quit smoking despite it being linked to a third of pancreatic cancers...Patrick's wife Lisa, 51, is liquidising high-fat dinners as he is having trouble keeping down solid foods."
So Swayze can't keep down food, but he's still smoking? As, ahem, sometimes-smokers ourselves, that's plenty of incentive for us to quit smoking forever cut down a bit. And, as you might expect, Tom Cruise found a way to insert himself into the situation. Surprisingly, though, he resisted the urge to tear into a propaganda-laced diatribe; , instead, he issued this statement about his co-star from The Outsiders: "We are all praying for a quick recovery." Us, too. Put down the smokey treats, Patrick ... we're all pulling for you.
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We're all pulling for you, too, Molly. Put down the commas.
Hell. The man's going to die within a few months whether he has a cig in his mouth or not. If that's how he wants to go out, let him fucking smoke. It's not like it's going to do him any good at this point. He STILL won't be able to keep down his food, no matter what. He's in end-game. Let him have what few pleasures he's got left, as opposed to going cold turkey on chemo.
I wonder what a liquidized high-fat dinner would taste like. Smoothie chicken parm? I'd have a problem keeping that down, too.
He should switch to Mary Jane. He would smoke less and eat more. I would be pissed if I were Lisa.
@Cacafuego: Well that's depressing and totally true.
@SanFranBetsu: That's what I was thinking. Why smoke tobacco when you could be smoking weed?
And if he gets it from one of those medical marijuana places, as an added Bonus - A cool new hat!
Someone needs to bake him a batch of high fat weed brownies smothering in bud-butter cream frosting. That'll always cure what ails you. I'm getting hungry myself.
@Cacafuego: I totally agree. Let's leave him alone.
I don't know what I would do in his situation. I guess he's taking it a day at a time, and if he's going to smoke, then so be it. I've taken this walk with a few people so he must be feeling okay still to want to continue smoking. If he finds comfort in it, then although it's not doctor recommended let him have comfort.
@SanFranBetsu:
The inability to keep down food probably has a lot to do with the cancer choking off his digestive system, not a loss of appetite. That's what happened to my dad. He spent the last 3 months of his life unable to eat except via IVs. He wasn't even able to take fluids by mouth any more, at the end--he survived off ice chips. So let Swayze smoke 'em if he's got 'em. Soon he'll be plugged into the morphine drip 24/7,which, as we all know, is so much healthier than Pall Malls.
@SanFranBetsu: That is seriously good advice, frankly. Chemo will eliminate an appetite, and when you've got a hard time eating at all, you need every incentive you can get to do it.
It's sad to see him still smoking. You'd think he'd have more pride.
@BeAgrestic: "Patrick Swayze for Dawn Wells. No, don't put me on hold."
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