I never had a desire to smoke cigarettes. I’m pretty conservative and I always felt it was a waste of money. Larry smoked. He stopped 2005. Laura was expecting Sigrid and he said “I’m not smoking around this baby”. He saw a young counselor to stop. He did not take any medication. He would go talk to her an hour once a week. He walked. He was successful but said he still wanted to smoke for about 10 years. He had an aneurism in his stomach in 2018. It was repaired with a stint. The cause of the aneurysm was smoking. What a deadly habit. When we married Larry smoked in the house by the year 2000 I had isolated him to the swing on our front porch. He went out there to smoke. People used to smoke in restaurants and doctors’ offices. Wow, things have changed. My father smoked. He rolled his cigarettes from loose tobacco first. Prince Albert it was called. The paper was thin and came in a tiny notebook looking package that was black. Later, he bought rolled cigarettes. I recall Winston’s. Larry smoked Cool’s or maybe it was Kool’s. Dad finally quit, but then he chewed tobacco— good money twists. He had an spittoon. A very gross habit. Juice would be on his chin!
Remember when these ads were all over magazines and even on tv.
I found pictures of the exact papers and tobacco Dad used when I was a young girl.
Then Dad switched to these.
Cigarettes are not as prevalent as they once were, but I still see lots of folks smoking. Burning up money as they kill themselves—what a waste. Now, vaping is the new habit. My hair dresser is pretty old. I guess 60 at least. One time when I went for a perm as she was waiting for a chemical to work, she sat down and vaped as we waited. I was shocked!
Weird things I recall. When I started teaching, teachers smoked in the teacher’s lounge. It was always thick with smoke and stinky. Now, I think it’s weird we called it a lounge. I only went in there to use the private bathroom. Yuck. All the restaurants had ash trays on the table. Then there were smoking and non smoking sections but in some places these were just signs. The smoke floated across the entire area. Ceiling turned yellow.
Man uses a lot time and energy trying to die. The new ideas are even more deadly than the old.
2 comments:
Everyone used to smoke, my parents and Grandfather on my Mothers side of the family. It was years before it was realized what a health hazard it was. It is a very hard habit to break.
Both my parents smoked but quit and lived to be 92. Thankfully, they were never heavy smokers because, as my late husband's oncologist told him, the lungs never forget. He smoked and found out the hard way by dying of lung cancer. I remember the smoking lounge at my school when I started teaching! There weren't very many of the staff who smoked; it was difficult to do when you were in the classroom most of the day.
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