Originally Posted by Velo Dog

Am I the only person in the world who NEVER thought smoking was cool? My mom was a smoker, and when I was four or five, I asked her about it. She explained the whole inhaling/nicotine/addiction thing.This was years before the Surgeon General's report, so there was no agreement that smoking was unhealthy. Even so, I thought, "Jeez, that's just dumb." When I was in high school in the '60s, then in the Army, nearly everybody smoked. I hated it, hated being around smokers and still do.