A cook. A speech therapist. A credit union executive. A fashion model-turned-cancer activist. A secretary. A homemaker... all were mothers. Nineteen lives cut short... women from all walks of life, hailing from every corner of the United States and a province in Canada. Some were homemakers with little or no formal education; others were career women with college degrees and accomplished resumes. Regardless of their backgrounds, all these women share one thing in common: an addiction to smoking that culminated in an array of illnesses and their untimely demise. Their stories, told by their surviving daughters, pay tribute to the mothers they lost, often at pivotal moments in the daughters lives, and the legacy they continue to live with every day. A Breath Away offers a powerful anti-smoking message that goes beyond the statistics to today s generation of girls and young women, to think twice before lighting up.
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"The stories told by survivor daughters and one mother whose young daughter died of lung cancer are sincere and moving." -- Peggy McCarthy, Founder, Lung Cancer Alliance
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Anne Wainscott-Sargent began her writing career at age 18 as a freelance reporter for her hometown newspaper, The Dayton Daily News. She graduated from Ohio University's EW Scripps School of Journalism in 1991. Today she is a public relations consultant and writer. She lives with her husband and son in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. Her mother died from lung cancer in 2004 at the age of 64.
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I am the eldest of 6 siblings. Our mother died from emphysema resulting from her smoking all of her life. I could relate to the stories told by the siblings of the mothers in this book. I think the book is very well written and will recommend it to anyone that has smokers in their family. I am giving copies of this book to my family members for Christmas...
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