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    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 29 12:31:03 2023
    A patient buying cigarettes while he admitted to hospital, 1950.

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    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F30mN1IacAABznQ.jpg

    @UmarBzv

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Tue Aug 29 14:47:51 2023
    On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 12:31:03 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    A patient buying cigarettes while he admitted to hospital, 1950.

    PIC
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F30mN1IacAABznQ.jpg

    @UmarBzv

    It's likely even the doctor smoked back then. Remember all the bullshit benefits they claimed smoking provided - alertness, energy, peace,
    probably other hogwash before we realized any of that was essentially
    drowned out by the cancer you'd also benefit from ...

    Schwanky hospital!

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  • From rdh@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Tue Aug 29 14:28:19 2023
    On 8/29/23 13:47, Retrograde wrote:
    It's likely even the doctor smoked back then. Remember all the bullshit benefits they claimed smoking provided - alertness, energy, peace,
    probably other hogwash before we realized any of that was essentially
    drowned out by the cancer you'd also benefit from ...

    Schwanky hospital!

    You wouldn't want a doctor with the shakes operating on you, would ya?
    Nurse, I need a light, stat!

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    ~rdh

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 29 15:48:01 2023
    On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 14:47:51 -0400, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com>
    wrote:

    It's likely even the doctor smoked back then.

    SEE: https://tobacco.stanford.edu/cigarettes/doctors-smoking/

    A cancer connection had to be established. I suspect its based upon statistics, and not a scientific accounting.

    That said, Helmut Schmidt's immune system (et.al.) was apparently
    active against cancer.

    Born: December 23, 1918, Barmbek
    Died: November 10, 2015, Hamburg, Germany

    Former Chancellor of Germany Retains Wit and Smoking Habit at 95
    ...
    ...
    A heavy smoker, he does as no other mortal may: puff away anywhere, on television, at meetings, even, according to German journalists who
    have witnessed it, in Washington. When the European Union threatened
    earlier this year to ban menthol cigarettes, Mr. Schmidt's friend Peer Steinbruck reported that the old chancellor had stockpiled 200 cartons
    of his favored Reynos -- enough to feed his two-to three-pack-a-day
    habit for two or three years.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/world/europe/helmut-schmidt-former-chancellor-of-germany.html

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 29 21:11:22 2023
    Schwanky hospital!

    You wouldn't want a doctor with the shakes operating on you, would ya?
    Nurse, I need a light, stat!

    you mean, from his alcohol withdrawal, obviously (ha ha).

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