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Comment by xoxxala

1 hour ago

My step-father’s parents smoked a carton a day. Each. They started smoking before breakfast and stopped just before sleep. Their trailer home had a 2-3’ cloud of haze below the ceiling and every surface was sticky. I’m not how many years they smoked like that, but probably decades.

As a kid, I could not breathe in there. This would have been late 70s. No way they could have afforded that habit at today’s prices.

That is crazy. How long did they live? It would be fascinating if someone could live a long life despite smoking so much