All those cigarettes


I found it amusing.

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This was a time when smoking was considered to be at the height of elegance.🐭

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I know that it was once considered glamorous, but I still found it disgusting, all that second hand smoke. Yuk!

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, or doesn't.

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My grandparents, in their 20's at that time of 1939, smoked like chimneys. Always a cloud of smoke hanging over their heads. When I was in
my early 20's (now in my late 50's?)I tried to smoke, but I became severely nauseous/sick. Thank God, I had this reaction because I never smoked again.
As a nurse in a hospital, I see all the lasting effects of smoking. Leg amputations, tethered to oxygen machines and CA - not just lung cancer but every cancer from one opening, your mouth, to the final opening, your rectum. Cancer occurs in the gastrointestinal tract from smoking.
Quit if you smoke.

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You folks must have some interesting social lives, given how judgmental you are. And I can't help but wonder if any of you have ever smoked a joint.

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Human beings shouldn't smoke cigarettes if they want to be healthy. That's not judgmental. That's simply a fact.

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It's simply a fact that you're minding other people's business, and nothing is more irritating than that. You are being extraordinarily judgmental, and you're suffering from a superiority complex.
Stick your head back up your ass, where it belonged in the first place.

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Ask any medical professional, and they'll tell you the same thing. Smoking is unhealthy for human beings. It is simply a scientific fact.

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So is the smoking of cannabis, but there's a huge movement afoot to legalize it. How about the consumption of alcohol, on screen and in life? The public, particularly the American public, is obsessed with minding other people's business.

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I'm not minding anyone's business. If you want to smoke, smoke. I don't care. It's your health, not mine.

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Of course you're minding other people's business. I'm sure that you do things that some people wouldn't approve of as well. Who made you the arbiter of acceptable social behavior?

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Again, if you want to smoke go right ahead. This is not personal. Simply stating a fact about smoking in no way implies that I am telling you not to do it. That's your choice. The fact that you are choosing to make this a personal attack on you is very telling.

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And your initial comment is very telling about you. You bothered to take the time to pass judgment on people who were doing something that was completely socially acceptable seventy-seven years ago.

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Nope. I never passed judgment on anyone. Sorry.

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I have been a patient in hospitals and nursing facilities for over a year and I have seen what smoking does to people and those around them. In one case, I saw the husband die of cancer and his wife suffer from lung problems due to second-hand smoke. Smokers think that ir is no one's business except their's that they smoke, but those of us who are exposed to them and therir smoke need to be concerned.

Bette Davis looked horrible at the time of her death. Her years of smoking took a huge toll on her. She cigarette sharing scene from "Now, Voyager" probably led to more women smoking than any other scene in film history.

It just seems a shame of all the money that is being spent on curing cancer when not smoking will stop so many forms of cancer. Maybe money can be spent curing other diseases that devastate many without a known cause.

All the world is a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

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