Fight 4 Your Life: Pam Laffin and Rick & Marie Stoddard

VO: It’s a fight like no other.

Pam Laffin: "Oh my God, the fear of not breathing or not being able to breathe is worse than anything in the whole world. My heart starts to beat really fast. There's nothing that's scarier."

Super: Pam Laffin. Dead at 31.

Rick Stoddard: "She was addicted to cigarettes. She had 20 lesions on her brain that had spread from the lung cancer."

Super: Marie Stoddard. Dead at 46.

Rick Stoddard: "Then I fell apart. I cried."

Super: Every hour, of every day, someone in Massachusetts dies from cigarettes.

VO: Fight for your life. Quit now.

Super: Fight 4YourLife.org

Super: © Massachusetts Department of Public Health