Gray Matters by Stuart Carlson and Jerry Resler for August 10, 2024

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    Zykoic  5 months ago

    Happened in 1954.

    “Nine out ten doctors who smoke, smoke Camel cigarettes.”

    “Not a cough in a carload.”

    “LSMFT”

    “Live modern, smoke L&M.”

    “Winston taste good…like acigarette should.”

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    E.Z. Smith Premium Member 5 months ago

    Kent cigarettes, the company claimed in the 1950s, were “the one cigarette that can show you proof of greater health protection.” Micronite filters used crocidolite asbestos.

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    goboboyd  5 months ago

    After stopping over thirty years ago, I still occasionally crave a Camel straight. When the price went up to $.50 a pack in the public vending machines, I thought ‘Yikes, who can afford that?’.

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    BeniHanna6 Premium Member 4 months ago

    Actually this was the “Greatest Generation” i.e. WWII. The baby boomers watched their parents, uncles and aunts dying of cancer and learned the lesson.

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    nostall  4 months ago

    It went on right into the early ’80s.

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    cracker65  4 months ago

    Doctor Parkinson declares I’m not surprised to see you here, you’ve got smokers cough from smoking, brewers droop from drinking beer. Industrial disease Dier Straits.

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    tinstar  4 months ago

    My great uncle smoked unfiltered Camels for decades (and drank room-temp Shaefer beer!). When my great aunt was diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma, he quit that very day, cold turkey, for her. I miss them.

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