DEAR ABBY: My mother is a lifelong smoker. She is dying from lung cancer. The bravest thing she has ever done is share her story with high school students. She makes no bones about her future. If her story prevents one kid from starting to smoke, she'll feel she has done something good with her life. –- P.T. IN ALLENTOWN, PA.
DEAR P.T.: Please accept my sympathy for your mother's terminal illness. She's a courageous woman to share her story in the hope it will save others.