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Originally Posted by Hera
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??
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That was for our generation. For our parents it was promoted as cool and our grandparents were told it could help some medical issues. My grandfather was told to start smoking in the military because it would stop his nosebleeds. It took a huge legal effort to turn that around.