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Children Smoking In The 1930's

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Children Smoking In The 1930's

My Mother was a Saint; she must havestore. His Dad smoked an old pipe that
been to have put up with me and myhe usually filled with crushed cigars
smoking. Yeah, I was a hard core smokerthat had grown stale enough to be given
when I was around 11-12 years old.to an employee or thrown away.
Cigarettes? Oh no, could not affordEdward would borrow, without his Dad's
them, but there was other good smokingknowledge, a box of those cigars and
materials just laying around for thehide it under a large rock on the hill
taking.behind his house. We would manfully
Dry cedar bark crushed and rolled up inlight up and puff away, not inhaling of
a cigar shape in a piece of newspaper orcourse, but we never acknowledge that
printed circular worked just fine.fact. I don't think we ever finished
However, there was one teeny littlesmoking one, three or four puffs served
problem that was a dead give away.to show how tough we were.
Take a puff and the cedar bark andBack in the 1930's almost everyone
newspaper wrapping flared up; usuallysmoked. I doubt the tobacco was as bad
slightly singeing my eye brows.for our bodies as is that of today where
When Mother saw my burned eye brows, sheso many chemicals are used. Doesn't
would kindly ask if I had been smoking.matter of course, smoking is a bad
Of course I said "no", and then the firething.
works began. First she wanted to knowI quit smoking, cold turkey, in 1973; it
why I had told her a fib. About the sameseemed I grew tired of coughing up that
time she also delivered a powerful slapyellow stuff in the morning. Or, perhaps
on my rear end with her hand, leaving meI just decided enough was more than too
wondering how she knew I lied. (Yearsmuch in the case of tobacco. A letter my
later I figured out the eye browson in junior high wrote was primarily
singeing bit).responsible for my decision to stop
Dried grape vines were also a source ofsmoking.
smokes. Just break off a small piece ofIn late 2005, I found myself with a good
vine about 6 inches long and light upcase of lung cancer as a direct result
for a strange experience. The core ofof my excessive smoking. After two
the vine was hollow which allowed thethirds of my right lung was removed,
heated smoke to enter your mouth.followed by chemo, I find myself in
Grape vines would also flare up atremission for these past two and a half
times, giving Mother another shot at myyears.
behind. (She later told me how muchBut as a teen ager, I really, really
spanking me hurt her hand because manythought I was hot stuff with that
times there was some type of hard objectcigarette dangling from my lips. Too bad
in a rear pocket.)it takes us so long to get over that
Then there was my friend Edward whosethinking!
Dad worked at the Piggly Wiggly grocery



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