The National Women's Health Information Center's Featured Health Articles
 Article for May, 2006
A Breath Away: Daughters Remember Mothers Lost to Smoking
By Anne Wainscott-Sargent
Author, A Breath Away: Daughters Remember Mothers Lost to Smoking (Acacia Publishing, 2005)
As I observe Mother's Day this year, it's hard for me to not think about a year in my life when I both became a mother and lost my mother. Between December 2003 and August 2004, I married the love of my life, gave birth to our first child and said good-bye to my own mother, a lifelong smoker, who died from lung cancer within a nine-month period. The loss of my mom in the midst of my becoming a mother was the genesis for my book — A Breath Away: Daughters Remember Mothers Lost to Smoking (2005: Acacia Publishing).
A Breath Away pays tribute to not just my mom but to several everyday women — caregivers, career women, wives and mothers. Those profiled include 18 mothers and one daughter lost too soon from smoking-related illnesses. They are remembered by their daughters and a lone mom whose daughter was only 28 when she died from lung cancer. It is my hope that putting a human face on the toll of smoking will help all those struggling with this addiction to quit or for the younger generation to choose not to pick up cigarettes to begin with.
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