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Originally Posted by Michael G.
Trouble with all this talking about bad health habits in your youth is when your in our teens and 20's,
we think where going to live forever.
Do some of you veterans when in the service remember getting cigarettes in you C-rations?
I think mine where Lucky Strike.
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Yup. Remember it well. Four cigarettes in a pack. My nonsmoking friends gave me their packs. Only casually smoked until I went in service. Then free or very cheap cigarettes and “light ‘em if you got ‘em” and eventually I became a chain smoker. Dad, an avid smoker, had throat cancer take him. He kicked my butt when he caught me as a child smoking but no real conversation about the ills of smoking. At 75, after a lung resection and some subsequent proton therapy sessions I think I may now be cancer free (?? Can never tell for sure).
EDUCATION and negative societal/peer pressure is the best way to discourage smoking