July 1991for me. Went to a gastroenterologist for "stomach burning."
He told me to quit smoking and drinking caffiene. Worst night & couple of days in my life till that point. Headaches like you wouldn't belive. After a couple of rounds of medication trial & error, he suggested I should have a stress test.
Had the stress test at 8:00 am August 30, 1991 in my cardiologist's office, my first day as his patient.. I was admitted to Delaware Medical Center at 7:00 pm that night. (Friday of Labor Day weekend). I had quintuple bypass surgery @ 9:00 in the morning Sept. 3, 1991.

Mom & Dad both were lifelong Camel non filtered smokers. Dad died with severe emphysema, a couple of years after he quit smoking in 1992. Mom switched to Carleton for the last few years of her life. She died of lung cancer in 1998.

My ex-wife told me after my operation that if I could have seen how bad I looked after the surgery, I'd never smoke again.

I tell my family if they could have seen mom in the hospital her last night, they would never smoke either.