This happened one town over from where I live....
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Woman catches fire and dies after smoking while on oxygen
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HILLSBORO, N.H. - A 76-year-old woman died Tuesday after catching fire while smoking and using an oxygen tank.
Neighbors said Barbara Brouillette was on fire when she ran into her backyard Tuesday morning. Fire officials said she caught on fire because she was smoking a cigarette while breathing oxygen from a portable tank. Her death was ruled an accident.
''Anybody on oxygen is not supposed to smoke,'' said John Raymond, assistant director of the fire marshal's office.
Neighbor Christine Silfvenius said Brouillette, a widow, suffered from heart problems and recently was diagnosed with lung cancer.
''She said, 'I smoked all my life,''' Silfvenius said. ''She said, 'I had no regrets. I've done everything I wanted to do.'''
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I can't imagine. Another true story, my wife and I went to dinner at a Chineese restaurant in Concord NH last Sunday. As we were entering a Man wearing a back pack oxygen tank with a hose running to his nose was standing outside smoking a cigarette.
Gods honest truth. In less than a week these two things.
I know God works in mysterious ways. First I see a guy smoking with oxygen and I think - I never want to get like that. Then I read about the women in Hillsborough and I think - wow, I can't let that happen to me.
I'm amazed at the lengths some people will go to to protect their nicotine addiction.
It's sad.
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