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Lula resident Ernest Couch, 82, has been lung cancer free for the last three years. He began smoking when he was 16, quit cold turkey in his late 30s but was diagnosed with cancer at age 78.
“I started smoking when I was about 16 years old, working as a delivery boy for the drug store,” 82-year-old Ernest Couch said. Everyone smoked cigarettes then so it just seemed like the thing to do, he said. “It was cool to smoke,” his wife of 63 years, Jimmie Couch, added.