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Posted on 06/14/2010 4:08:41 PM PDT by naturalman1975
I’m sure - but you take your teachable moments whereever you can get them :)
I remember as a kid hanging out at the gas station in the '50s, guys would come in and ask for a pack of 'coffin nails'. The dangers were not unknown.
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Who was that... the guy they air-brushed out of the Stalin photo?
One of these days we need to have a thread on smoking the cigar with the band vs. without the band.
Great list!!
Poor old Winnie looks like he has just suffered a stroke. That’s a horrible misrepresentation of history.
Next I suppose MacArthur’s corncob pipe will go the way of all flesh.
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Kirov.
He was much more popular that Stalin and wanted a “third way” -— kinda socialism, instead of communism. No forced collectivism.
Stalin (probably) had him killed; material impediment to the Cult of Personality Obama, er, I mean Stalin was setting up.
That is what the Left odes, rewrite history, and usually operating under the cover of darkness.
Of course, back then people were laboring under the misapprehension that their life was their own, not the state's.
Nor is it today and for the same reason - Leftist propaganda to incrementally control our lives. There were more studies published in the medical journals of the past which showed smoking to be good for you, are at the least not harmful, than the flawed statistical analysis which was adopted to say they were harmful. Cigarette paper has some potentially harmful chemicals but cigars and other forms of tobacco are fine.
Arthur C. Clarke predicted this! His (mostly forgettable) novel, “The Ghost from the Grand Banks” takes place in a future in which an entire industry is set up to remove all vestiges of cigarrette smoking from classic movies because the very idea of smoking is too disgusting for everyone to see.
Is that a Monica Lewinsky quote?
How many years is it now since they started airbrushing FDR's cigarettes (in cigarette holder) out of his photos? At least 10 I think!
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