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Children Smoking In The 1930's

My Mother was a Saint; she must have been toThen there was my friend Edward whose Dad
have put up with me and my smoking. Yeah, Iworked at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store.
was a hard core smoker when I was aroundHis Dad smoked an old pipe that he usually
11-12 years old. Cigarettes? Oh no, could notfilled with crushed cigars that had grown
afford them, but there was other good smokingstale enough to be given to an employee or
materials  just laying around for the taking.thrown  away.
Dry cedar bark crushed and rolled up in aEdward would borrow, without his Dad's
cigar shape in a piece of newspaper orknowledge, a box of those cigars and hide it
printed circular worked just fine. However,under a large rock on the hill behind his
there was one teeny little problem that was ahouse. We would manfully light up and puff
dead  give  away.away, not inhaling of course, but we never
acknowledge that fact. I don't think we ever
Take a puff and the cedar bark and newspaperfinished smoking one, three or four puffs
wrapping flared up; usually slightly singeingserved  to  show  how  tough  we  were.
my  eye  brows.
Back in the 1930's almost everyone smoked. I
When Mother saw my burned eye brows, shedoubt the tobacco was as bad for our bodies
would  kindly  ask  if  I  had  been smoking.as is that of today where so many chemicals
are used. Doesn't matter of course, smoking
Of course I said "no", and then the fireis  a  bad  thing.
works began. First she wanted to know why I
had told her a fib. About the same time sheI quit smoking, cold turkey, in 1973; it
also delivered a powerful slap on my rear endseemed I grew tired of coughing up that
with her hand, leaving me wondering how sheyellow stuff in the morning. Or, perhaps I
knew I lied. (Years later I figured out thejust decided enough was more than too much in
eye  brow  singeing  bit).the case of tobacco. A letter my son in
junior high wrote was primarily responsible
Dried grape vines were also a source offor  my  decision  to  stop  smoking.
smokes. Just break off a small piece of vine
about 6 inches long and light up for aIn late 2005, I found myself with a good case
strange experience. The core of the vine wasof lung cancer as a direct result of my
hollow which allowed the heated smoke toexcessive smoking. After two thirds of my
enter  your  mouth.right lung was removed, followed by chemo, I
find myself in remission for these past two
Grape vines would also flare up at times,and  a  half  years.
giving Mother another shot at my behind. (She
later told me how much spanking me hurt herBut as a teen ager, I really, really thought
hand because many times there was some typeI was hot stuff with that cigarette dangling
of  hard  object  in  a  rear  pocket.)from my lips. Too bad it takes us so long to
get over that thinking!



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