Timely lung screening identifies cancer in longtime smoker
For Lee Pointer, 76, shown above with his wife Dianna, smoking was a habit he nurtured for more than 47 years.
“When I was 12 in 1960, my brother had left for the Navy, so it was just my mother and me,” recalled Pointer. “She was a smoker and sometimes left long cigarette butts in the ashtray. One day I took one outside and puffed on it. Later, I hung out with my friends at our ‘clubhouse’ that was out of public view. I smoked there with one of my buddies.”
