Subj : Re: Smoking
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Fri Aug 29 2025 16:55:22

-=> Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: Smoking
 Ni>   By: MRO to Jon Justvig on Fri Aug 29 2025 11:01 am

 MR> Smoking is the hardest thing to quit. It's a physical and emotional
 MR> addiction.

 MR> You will always want to smoke. If you have friends that smoke and you are
 MR> around them it makes it impossible to quit.

 MR> You never really quit smoking. You just stop.

 Ni> Much of my immediate family (including my parents) and their friends
 Ni> smoked when I was growing up. I didn't like it, and anyone who smoked
 Ni> always told me it was a bad idea, so I never started.  My mom had a
 Ni> heart attack in 2014 and she decided to just stop smoking.  My dad had
 Ni> a bad cold years ago and said he couldn't really smoke because he'd
 Ni> cough too much, and he was also sleeping a lot; he said he slept
 Ni> through much of his withdrawals, and he decided to stop smoking after
 Ni> that.  I'm glad they stopped smoking..  These days, I don't know very
 Ni> many people who smoke anymore.

I remember my parents smoking, but also remember them quitting when I 
was fairly young.  I did smoke myself for a few years, but quit LONG 
ago.

 Ni> It seems almost weird now to think I remember when smoking was legal
 Ni> basically everywhere, including inside grocery stores & supermarkets &
 Ni> such.  People used to be buying grocery store produce that had been
 Ni> exposed to cigarette smoke in the store.

Yup, recall that too, and in restaurants while you're trying to eat.   
I'm old enough to even remember people smoking on airplanes.  The rear 1/3
or so of the seating was for smokers, as if there was a magic barrier that
kept the smoke from coming forward into the rest of the cabin.  Not cool at
all, but at that time it was a "normal" thing.  Seems very strange to me now.



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