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> Hmm. Maybe it's seven minutes, which would make more sense. That would make the time lost to smoking to be 15 years. (3 months times 60)

I wasn't going to mention it, but since you did, I'll agree. I was thinking seven minutes was what I remembered.

For what it's worth, I already had a picture of you as about 25 or 30. The Chinese part caught me by surprise too. When I first moved to East Tennessee(1959), people would stare at Asian people. Now there are so many here, they don't even get noticed. Twenty years ago, we only had two Mexicans in town. Now half the people speak Spanish. The change has been good for the whole community. Most of the Mexicans work in the mushroom industry, but the Asians tend to be professional people and a lot of them work in the government think-tank at nearby Oak Ridge.
Howard