@ickplant to Old School Cool • 10 months agoToddler blowing out mom's cigarette match. Long Island, NY, USA, 1950simagemessage-square6arrow-up126arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up121arrow-down1imageToddler blowing out mom's cigarette match. Long Island, NY, USA, 1950s@ickplant to Old School Cool • 10 months agomessage-square6file-text
minus-square@ickplantOPlink1•10 months agoI grew up outside of the US in the 1980s when everyone smoked everywhere. Homes, restaurants, planes. I still can’t stand the smell of cigarette smoke, it makes me physically sick.
minus-squaresubspaceinterferentslink2•edit-210 months agoFWIW, my mother died in 1991 of lung cancer. She started at age 15. Kept smoking until she could no longer. RIP Pearl.
minus-square@ickplantOPlink2•10 months agoRIP, Pearl. I feel bad for all the people who got addicted and then got sick and died because tobacco executives knowingly lied.
I grew up outside of the US in the 1980s when everyone smoked everywhere. Homes, restaurants, planes. I still can’t stand the smell of cigarette smoke, it makes me physically sick.
FWIW, my mother died in 1991 of lung cancer. She started at age 15. Kept smoking until she could no longer. RIP Pearl.
RIP, Pearl. I feel bad for all the people who got addicted and then got sick and died because tobacco executives knowingly lied.