He is Masahiro Yamagishi, 55 years old, was a stage 4 Lung cancer patient.
He is my father. As he passed away after five months doctor dropped a terrifying news in our life.

My mother has to send me to Manila after they got divorced when I was a child.
From then on, I lived my life in the land where my mother is born, in the Philippines. Only a few pictures and some stories of relatives is the only thing I know about him since then. I had no news or update to what happened to my father when they split apart.

On February 2011, luckily after 15 years. I came to Nagoya and see each other again. One of the first things I noticed is what my mother is telling me is true, he really truly is a hard smoker. His favorite cigarette never changed.

Personally, I don't smoke and I find it disgusting. I've had a personal experience on it, because of peer pressure, when I was 15 years old. Only I just hit it once and throw it up in the trashcan. I never liked it, not once.

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Smoking kills
Last December 2016, my father came from work much early than usual. He had a difficulty in breathing and want to seek the medical advice of the doctor. He had a high fever.
After a week, a sad news came out. He had a Lung Cancer. In most cases, the lung cancer is not diagnosed not until it was too late.

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You will get anything from cigarettes than harmful substances
January 2017, he is forced to stay in the hospital as a doctor's instruction. You would never be noticed him as having a lung cancer if you don't know him. He also laughs a lot and plays with his grandchild.

Unfortunately, on April 17, 2017, he already died. It took only 5 months from when he was diagnosed before he passed out.



