38. It'd be impossible to convey to anyone under 35 how pervasive
... tobacco was. Candy cigarettes. Licorice pipes. Absolutely EVERY grade in grade school included civics, history, and geography course work that talked about tobacco as a major trade good or the Native American ("Indian") gift of tobacco to the colonists. Sir Walter Raleigh. Virtually ALL the teachers smoked. The teachers' lounge was loaded with smoke. In the military, cigarettes were in the C-rations. The "smoking lamp was lit." "Smoke 'em if you've got 'em." Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart. Smoking in movie theaters in the Loge section.
Zippo Lighters.
Smoke. Drink. Vote. Get pregnant. Join the Army. These were the Rites of Passage into adulthood.
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