I took up smoking as soon as it was legal, because my parents smoked & everybody in the Air Force smoked. They also tend to drink a lot which fortunately my parents never did.
When my dad died there was half a bottle of Johnny Walker in his nightstand. I thought it looked kind of funny. Mom told me it was 35 years old. I didn’t waste it.
But my God everybody smoked like crazy back then and I did too until well after it became social taboo. Back in ‘85 we all smoked in the engineering office. By ‘86 I was in a no smoking office. By 2000 I was no longer smoking in my own house.
But a lot of times it was easy for me to take my work outside and sit at a picnic table with a cuppa coffee and a cigarette and a calculator and a pencil and do my engineering. That made it easy for me to keep smoking to 2008.
I probably quit 5 times, and one time I quit for over 2 years before starting again.
There is no doubt that my health suffered from it a lot. The one thing I can say about smoking is that it tended to keep other people out of your personal space, and you didn’t pick up their colds and flu‘s as often.
Fortunately I had no real heart attack but I knew the situation, and in 2008 I started losing weight as well.
There’s a big cigar out in my toolbox in case I ever want to start again. It’ll make me quit right away.
Imagine what that cigar will taste like after all those years! It’s already probably 15 years old.
When my dad died there was half a bottle of Johnny Walker in his nightstand. I thought it looked kind of funny. Mom told me it was 35 years old. I didn’t waste it.
But my God everybody smoked like crazy back then and I did too until well after it became social taboo. Back in ‘85 we all smoked in the engineering office. By ‘86 I was in a no smoking office. By 2000 I was no longer smoking in my own house.
But a lot of times it was easy for me to take my work outside and sit at a picnic table with a cuppa coffee and a cigarette and a calculator and a pencil and do my engineering. That made it easy for me to keep smoking to 2008.
I probably quit 5 times, and one time I quit for over 2 years before starting again.
There is no doubt that my health suffered from it a lot. The one thing I can say about smoking is that it tended to keep other people out of your personal space, and you didn’t pick up their colds and flu‘s as often.
Fortunately I had no real heart attack but I knew the situation, and in 2008 I started losing weight as well.
There’s a big cigar out in my toolbox in case I ever want to start again. It’ll make me quit right away.
Imagine what that cigar will taste like after all those years! It’s already probably 15 years old.
