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