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Originally Posted by Jmsmittyroad
I voted with Chemda on the poll because it wasn't that we didn't know smoking/sugar were bad, but the level has always been down played. My dad smoked for forty years and tried to quit more times than I can count. If wasn't until much later and after being sued did the tobacco company admit that they messed with nicotine levels and it was deadly.
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hmm well, i don't know where or when you went to school, but again, in NJ in the early 1970s they had special school assemblies to let you know it caused everything from wrinkles to lung cancer. Maybe in subsequent decades they stopped educating kids about this??