Originally posted by sonhouseThose sick twisted evil people. I do not tolerate animal abuse either pre or post mortem.
My dad smoked 4 packs a day for decades, quit cold turkey at age 60. I never started and am glad of that. The reason I never started was due to a biology class in HS.
They had this demo of a freshly killed cow lung from some meat processing plant. When the demo started, the lung looked very pink and healthy. They hooked it up to a cigarette smoking mach ...[text shortened]... ife long anti smoker out of me instantly.
They should show that demo to every HS class IMHO.
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Originally posted by Paul Dirac III started smoking at age 11. A pack cost 25 cents then (Red Marlboro). Would tell the cashier I was buying them for my parents.
One of these days I am going to buy a pack of cigarettes just to see what I have been missing out on all these decades. 😛
The Rolling Stones and the Beatles were often photographed with cigarette in hand or in mouth, which probably contributed to the cool factor. In the 1970s a number of kids smoked just outside the chain-link-fence perimeter of ou ver roll your own to save money? Did you smoke in the school lavatory? Have you tried to quit?
A few short years later, at my high school, kids could smoke if you had a permission slip from your parents (which I didn't). There was a smoking area outside at the high school where the teenage smokers would smoke at lunch.
My Dad smoked but my parents did not want me smoking. Yet, they were ok if I dipped snuff or chewed tobacco (which I didn't).
As a young adult, it was easy to smoke almost anywhere. I remember walking through the grocery store, pushing the buggy and smoking a cigarette.