• TwattyMcTwatterson@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.”

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      3 months ago

      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

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      3 months ago

      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.

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      3 months ago

      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.

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        3 months ago

        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.