Even though he quit for 2 decades, his days of heavy smoking still got him in the end. Lung cancer got him in his 60s.
Living in interesting times
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Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 month ago
HKPiax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Anyone knows the context of that picture?
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
just about as many people smoked as didn’t, back in the day. if you didn’t smoke, you still had ashtrays in the house, for when people came to visit.
when they first tried to have control smoking on planes, it wasn’t “no smoking at all” it was “let’s at least have a non-smoking section”–it was seen as absurd that there even be a corner of the plane where one couldn’t smoke.
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I’ve read that aircraft mechanics were sad when smoking stopped because the nicotine smears on the aircraft were such a good visual clue of where air was leaking and it made theirs jobs a lot easier.
TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was on a plane in the very early 90’s, and I remember being about 10 years old and the second the ‘smoking okay’ sign came on, a WALL of smoke rolled back through the curtains that separated the sections.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
youtu.be/AVz0fx1lO0k?si=stOZKmdIRsDoQML5
Last 3 min
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nothing shook me more than watching Tom Brokaw continuously fighting to keep his composure and struggling to find his words during 9/11.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He’d need a blunt to deliver the climate change section these days
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dabs.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ayeeee
the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You think you do, but you don’t.
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“and the British discover the child abuse hotline”
… They sure did. Well done, Andrew.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 month ago
downpunxx@fedia.io 1 month ago
I had just gotten fired from a job, was in the elevator going up to a Gym with my sister in NYC, and Peter Jennings got in, I was telling my sister my tale of woe, and Jennings turns to me and says, "don't worry about it, I've gotten fired from plenty of jobs". rip pete.