Women Who Smoke

[RedAngie]

Here, sonny, have a drag.



Let’s get this party started.


Natalie Schafer, “Mrs. Howell”

 

[JaxDad]

Lauren Bacall

 

[goofyernmost]

Was there a point to this thread that I am missing?

 

[2Lunds]

Was there a point to this thread that I am missing?

"Just for fun"?

 

[easyas123]

Was there a point to this thread that I am missing?

Might not be the point intended, but when I saw the first picture it reminded me of my grandmother & grandfather. There are several photos of us on their lap. They've got a cig in one hand and a glass of scotch in another! I think maybe I'll take a ride down memory lane and look at some photos this evening...thanks Angie!

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Was there a point to this thread that I am missing?

I can't be sure of Angie's point and maybe I'm reading way too much into her post. But I think the point was this.

Women like this are the reason men buy beer.

Women like this are the reason men drink beer.

Edit. With new and improved buy beer picture (because the other one is no longer available.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I have a photo of me being dressed by my Mom for my first Easter in 1968. On the table with me is a cig in an ashtray and a bottle of whiskey. Ah..the good old days.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I remember days like that, Angie. My whole family, 5 of us, smoked in the house back then, in the 50's. Can you imagine that today?

 

[goofyernmost]

OK, well it is a sight not often seen anymore, but when I was growing up, smoking was pretty common with both men and women. My mother didn't smoke but almost every woman I ever knew as a child did. My grandmother smoked and in fact started me smoking at 10 years old. She died of an abdominal aneurism common in smokers. When I met her my wife smoked. She quit before I did, but before to long I did as well. At this point no one in my family smokes (to my knowledge). It was a contributor to all the younger deaths in my older family members and only luck has prevented me from having my lungs rot away and they still might. It isn't fun anymore, but I can see that there might be lessons in seeing how foolish it looks, so I'm not offended only sad that not everyone has quit it yet. However, to let everyone know, there is nothing easy about quitting and unlike other dependencies there is very little public empathy for anyone in the process. All the others have government sponsored support groups. Smoking cessation is much harder to come by and the common battle call is usually "well, just quit", "that's so disgusting", "second hand smoke", "bla, bla, bla". Gee, why didn't I think of that! Almost all just theatrical but when it comes down to trying to actually help, not so much.

 

[longboard55]

It was disgusting, smoking in airplanes, smoking in grocery stores, offices, you go to a baseball game and get the chain smoker in the seat below, it was where terrible. Your clothes would smell whenever you went out. I remember when they first started passing bans in bars, which many said would ruin their business, but just the opposite. You could sit at a bar and breathe, it was like this is nice.

 

[princesscinderella]

Everyone looks a lot younger now that smoking is no longer as popular. Its amazing how much smoking ages and wrinkles up a person's face.

 

[JaxDad]

Smoking was still allowed in offices when I started my first real job. You could walk around and tell where smokers sat by the stained drop-ceiling tiles above their desks.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Alas, as everyone probably knows by now, I live with two smokers who think nothing of lighting up in the house. One of them is what I would call 'considerate,' (doesn't smoke around me or my Godson) the other is rude (Doesn't give a rip who is around.) *sigh* I have no say in it, because it's not my house. By installing an under door draft stopper, blocking my heating vent with a cover, and burning a scented candle at all times, I've managed to keep the stink from invading my bedroom for the most part. Neither one of them wants to quit, and I've stopped asking.

My Mom and Dad smoked, so did all of my grandparents, aunts and uncles. They smoked around us kids all the time, and although I never liked it, I didn't consider it strange. It just *was.*

 

[Moliphino]

I'm very lucky to come from a family where almost nobody smoked. At least in my memory, none of my parents, aunts, uncles, or grandparents smoked. The only smoker I remember was my grandmother's sister who used to come to my grandmother's pool sometimes and all of us kids were a bit scared of her and her raspy voice.

 

[kymom99]

No one in my family smoked growing up, but an uncle smoked cigars and an aunt smoked cigarettes. You could always tell when they had been in the house for a visit. Dad said he smoked in the military because everyone did but he never liked it so once he got home it was no problem to stop.

I wanted to smoke in the 80s to look “cool” but my mom was adamantly opposed so I had to sneak. Then it became too much trouble so I didn’t bother anymore. Wish I could give up food as easily.

My MIL died from COPD and it wasn’t pretty. My step daughter smokes now and I wish she wouldn’t.

 

[Kimkimba]

I grew up on second hand smoke and cannot stand to be around cigarettes today. Both my parents smoked heavily greatly affecting their quality of life.

 

[TCRAIG]

My mom smoked back in the 40’s - 60’s - when the cancer connection came out - I begged her to stop and would hide her cigs - she quit cold turkey after that. My sister smoked for a bit in the 70’s and 80’s and quit - none of us smoked other than those 2 and nobody in our family smokes now…it always amazed me that my husband didn’t smoke as he grew up on a tobacco farm and EVERYONE smoked - most starting at @age 12…

 

[The Mayor]

I remember my mother and her friends sitting around the kitchen table every Sunday for morning coffee and all of them smoking. You could barely see through the cloud. My mother actually quit and lived to be 90.

I also remember when they banned smoking in bars and restaurants in Massachusetts and all the owners were in an uproar about the business they thought they’d lose. Wei in actuality business pick up because more family’s started going out to eat more because of the smoking ban.

 

[DisneyHardin]

Lots of people smoked in my family when I was a little kid (the 80's), but slowly they all stopped. I remember my Grandma kept her cigarettes' and lighter in this little black leather clasp top pouch that I thought was really neat.

I don't know too many smokers anymore - my stepsister and one friend are all I can think of off the top of my head.

 

[georgina]

No difference between women & men who smoke. It's all disgusting to me.

I'm very lucky to come from a family where almost nobody smoked. At least in my memory, none of my parents, aunts, uncles, or grandparents smoked. The only smoker I remember was my grandmother's sister who used to come to my grandmother's pool sometimes and all of us kids were a bit scared of her and her raspy voice.

My parents didn't smoke, but they would have parties where it was awfully smoky and put all of us kids off smoking all together. My MIL smoked, it was bad when she visited. She got lung cancer in her 80's and had to quit, then became an alcoholic. One of my uncles died of throat cancer. Dh was a smoker when I met him, but I told him I would not marry a smoker. That was a red line for me, I have a lot of allergies. 35 years later he is still a nicotine addict and uses the lozenges, and he gets his low dose lung CT scan every year.