What’s for real is nature, and that is all that counts. If your body is in good shape and can take on the abuse of the world then nothing matters – not smoking, not stress – nothing. But when the base machinery is suspect then everything matters.

So though I agree that ’smoking’ is and will always be maintained as the main cause (in my and everyone’s mind) but the others – specially stress is what turned to be last hay on the camel’s back.

Interestingly this is not me but a TB expert’s words. He said, “…smoking just made you more vulnerable than the next guy…”

We (atleast I) thought that work-life balance meant – spend time w/ your family vis-a-vis to the time that you spent at work. But as the expert explained, it is not that… it is the time that you let your mind and body ‘rest’ is what matters. So you could be completely stressed out if you have a hectic weekend, ‘cos you’d want to spend ‘quality-time’ w/ your family. That is ‘bullshit’, as that just makes you more TIRED! On the contrary, you could be relaxed even w/ a 11hr work day, provided you know when to let go.

Get the picture? I am desparately trying to…

Cheers!

PS: That has be the longest comment ever!

Obvious question would be ‘why’ ?

If we do some maths, we’d find out the no. of smokers diagnosed with TB are more than (change in AC + swimmers + stress) put together. Honestly, there are no numbers for the latter ‘3′

Cheers!