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smoking and heart disease

posted 10 years ago by madman58
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of course we all know the damage it causes today but it was interesting to see F.D.R smoked right till the end.

[–] mcode518 10 years ago

It wasn't until 1964 that the Surgeon General reported that smoking was detrimental to your health.

Okay, well... filibuster.

[–] gsfsu 10 years ago

Correct, but if you watch some of the Three Stooges shorts made in the 1930's they refer to ciggies as "coffin nails" so there must have been enough information out there even back then that common sense would tell you that smokers died young.

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[–] jimcat63-1 10 years ago

Everybody smoked back then. The military encouraged soldiers to smoke. They believed it had a calming effect.

Watch classic movies. Booze and butts all day long. Very fashionable.

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[–] madman58 10 years ago

yes, that was my parents generation. they all smoked.it wasn't until i left home that i realized the ceiling didn't have to turn yellow. i would never criticize them. some people try to apply today's standards on to the past. it just doesn't work that way.

[–] diagoro-2 10 years ago

Was TR a smoker? I don't recall ever seeing him smoke. Might have been a unintentional benefit of being born an asthmatic.

[–] sly_3 8 years ago

Teddy was a cigar man.

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[–] irishm 9 years ago

I saw a war movie once where an ambulance driver was loading a wounded soldier into the back of an ambulance, and just before he closed the door he stuck a lit cigarette in the guy's mouth. Looks odd today but I bet it didn't when that film was made.