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   From: gadekryds@lundhansen.dk   
      
   Peter Moylan wrote:   
      
   > I read a lot of science fiction from the 1940s and 1950s, and there one   
   > finds that in the far distant future, in the days of the Galactic   
   > Empire, for example, almost everyone smokes.   
      
   Neither of my parents smoked - that is my mother used to smoke 25   
   cigarettes a day before she had children, but then she stopped   
   completely. When they friends visiting, they would pass around a dish   
   with cigarettes and small cigars. Everyone - as I remember - smoked then   
   even if they normally didn't.   
      
   A bit strange because my mother warned us against smoking and explained   
   about the risks. We three brothers smoked at some time as did my father.   
   My sisters haven't, apart from hash of course. I and my little brother   
   stopped a long time ago. The middle brother smoked right until he died   
   from an unhealthy living and pneumonia (aged 75).   
      
   --   
   Bertel   
   Kolt, Denmark   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)