Though it was the congestive heart failure, not the booze, that finally did in my father. This was after a series of aneurisms.

Both my parents smoked like chimneys. Two or three packs a day. The emphysema would have eventually killed my dad had he not killed himself with an alcohol overdose. I loathed smoking and went to great lengths to NEVER develop the habit. But I still grew up to develop severe allergies, and later, chronic asthma.