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I went to high school in the 70's, too. All the kids, including the smokers, knew it would kill you. Cigarette advertising on TV had ceased by then.

One of my friends went to the doctor complaining of shortness of breath, the doctor told him to quit smoking.

Interestingly, at college (still in the 70's) pretty much none of the students smoked. The handful that did got a lot of peer pressure to quit.

Some of my dates were smokers, but none of them pressured me to smoke.

My father told me about chain smokers in B-17's in raids over Germany. The cigarette would not stay lit at 30,000 feet. So the crewman would take a breath from the oxygen mask, blow on the cigarette which would then burn like a torch, take a puff, put the mask back on for another quick breath, blow on the cigarette before it went out, etc. He felt sorry for them. I didn't think to ask him what he thought of cigarettes and pure oxygen on an airplane overloaded with gas and bombs (thinking of Apollo 1).




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