[annelizly]

Then I have to wonder ....why is it that when I was a kid, in the 70's, and ALL OF US were exposed to large amounts of cigarette smoke, NONE OF US had allergies?

[SheLion]

Then I have to wonder ....why is it that when I was a kid, in the 70's, and ALL OF US were exposed to large amounts of cigarette smoke, NONE OF US had allergies?

You are correct!  I was raised in a family of smokers.  I never complained.  It was a part of life.

I was never sick with asthma and all this stuff the anti's claim that second hand smoke is doing to our kids today.

My daughter grew up in a house of two smokers and lots of smoking friends would come and visit.  She never once had asthma or was EVER sickly like the kids of today.

Very suspicious, isn't it!

[Skooz]

Then I have to wonder ....why is it that when I was a kid, in the 70's, and ALL OF US were exposed to large amounts of cigarette smoke, NONE OF US had allergies?

When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, everyone in my family smoked; mom, dad, aunts, uncles, grandparents. I had pretty terrible allergies and also developed asthma by the time I was 10 years old that lasted into my 20s.

I have no idea if any of that was because of the smoke. No way to tell.

[Ditter]

Obviously you did not inherit the allergy gene. That has to be present for the rest of it to happen.