• Singletona082@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Was a kid in the 80’s. I hated the smell of smoke and it irritated my eyes. That is a large part of why my grandparents quit. I’m probably why my parents didn’t smoke.

    I associate the smell of tobacco with my grandparents. Yet for all the fact i hated it at the time because it overpowered everything? I opened up one of those tobacco smelling candles and… It’s stupid i suppose but I was crying for a little bit.

    Also in the 1800’s you’d have tobacco smoke, but not the industrial scale of cigarettes.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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      My family smoked like chimneys, 1/2 died from cancer, 1/2 died from emphysema.

      You only need to watch one person die from emphysema to decide to never smoke.

      Bonus: One great great grandma died from emphysema and never smoked a day in her life… she was a fry cook for 40 years. :(

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      I’m totally with you on hating cigarettes but pure tobacco smoke doesn’t smell terrible IMO