This was my grandma man. She died at 98 smoking until the very end. She used to drive a 1972 Lincon Continental I would ride in the back seat with no chair or seat belt as she chain-smoked filterless Camels and spit dip into a Styrofoam coffee cup.
Edit: I called Camels “cowboy killers” but those were Marlboros and that’s what my mom smoked. Grandma didn’t dig filters because “that’s how you get cancer.”
Grandma didn’t dig filters because “that’s how you get cancer.”
That was true for a time. I think it was the 50’s when cigarette companies were using asbestos for their filters.
I think that was actually some other horrible lung disease.
To be fair back in those days I believe filters were made containing asbestos. Your grandma was a smart cookie!
Edit: This was actually the 50s
I had an uncle that smoked like it was a cure for cancer and would sit over a sprayer tank pouring chem in there with a smoke hanging out the side of his mouth and no gloves on. Washed his hands with gasoline to get the grease off.
Lived to 95.
Living to 98 is pretty darn impressive for a smoker
Yeah, she was a tough old woman. She was the exception to the smoking rule for sure. She chain-smoked, dipped, and drank whiskey all day lol out lived two husbands and one child.
My mum’s got a great anecdote about how the doctor came around about my cough when I was a newborn, and he came into a room full of local mums all fawning over me in my cot and chugging away.
People are still doing “Nobody:” memes? They don’t even make sense. This would be improved 100% by removing the “Nobody:” line.
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I’m not going to upvote you, but that is an excellent troll
Nobody:
Absolutely no-one:
CrayonRosary: Nobody and no-one suck!
Imo they are trying to set the tone.
I would go with “meanwhile” personally
Meanwhile… decades in the past? Still doesn’t make sense.
Yeah I guess this post would be the one situation where nobody would work better
Meanwhile… In the year 3000… BCE…!!
Pretty attention grabbing actually
Meanwhile… at the Hall of Justice…
People want everything to be reddit so hard.
My wife’s family used to mop the walls as part of cleaning.
It wasn’t until she moved out that she twigged that non-smokers don’t have to do that.
We’d all put on our scruffiest clothes before visiting my granddad, because they’d be going straight into the washing machine the second we got back. No wonder he kept giving us money, he probably thought we were poor as dirt.
I was the same way when I visited smoking family, I’d strip at the door and hit the shower when I got home.
Mopping the walls, my God.
What on earth is happening with the leg(?) ??
That’s a baby getting fed! 😂
It took me way too long to see that. Thank you 🙏
I definitely went through the same thought process!
I wonder if the reason I see duplicate memes on All is because a lot of people have blocked lemmy.ml and other large instances
Lemmy.ml is the wayer coming out of a full ashtray when you pour stale beer on it.
I remember the first time I was at someone’s house and they asked a visitor who who was about to light up to take it outside. It seemed so.odd. My mom, grandmother and aunts would sit around the dining room table with a thick haze. Nobody thought nothing of it
Like Plato allegedly said: “The unexamined life is not worth living”
Four out of five doctors recommend Marlboro cigarettes. The fifth one would too, if he weren’t currently in the hospital with all this unrelated lung cancer.
And lead gasoline
Why is he holding his leg on the table like this
Dad’s elbow is on the table to keep the cigarette away maybe. Baby is just tearin up the bobba.
“Clevon Little voice”
That’s not his leg…
That was the “Me” generation after all
What’s Donald Duck doing back there
Yes, this!?!
Just what or who wiped which (curly?) part on the curtains to make that pattern?!
I remember my mom pushing me into the footwell when we were about to hit the ditch in a snowstorm, of course I wasn’t wearing my lap belt, I mean, who did?
I wouldn’t ride with her for a week after that, she was quite offended.
You can probably just replace “nobody” with “everybody”
I don’t think we could have made the progress with smoking in the US now like we did back then. Would have turned into a partisan issue about freedoms and all that.
Oh, there were plenty of people throwing a fit about it back in the 90s too. The only difference is no one had social media to go find one another and rile each other up. They few foaming at the month couldn’t shout loud enough. You should have heard my bio dad at the time frothing he couldn’t walk into the grocery with a lit cigarette. Apparently the communists had won.
They did have Rush Limbaugh crowing about smoking bans, but the lung cancer that eventually killed him makes it harder to take his advice
