The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #154264   Message #3620667
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
20-Apr-14 - 07:08 PM
Thread Name: Smokers in clubs
Subject: RE: Smokers in clubs
"Cool as a mountain stream" was Consulate mentholated cigarettes not Peter Stuyvesant. You can still buy them.
I gave up halfway through my first pregnancy 38 years ago: had my last one at a family wedding. The link between lung cancer and smoking had been published in a paper by Sir Richard Doll in 1954, and other risks, such as the pregnant woman and her unborn child, emerged thereafter.
I can only echo what many have said above about hating coming home from any social gathering reeking of smoke and having to wash everything including hair. It may have driven some smokers away from attending such places, but has attracted back some who stayed away as they couldn't tolerate the smoke. Most of our friends and family are non-smokers, but on the rare occasion that we have had a smoker stay with us, we have just mentioned politely that our house is a no smoking area and guests have equally politely accepted and adhered to that. My father-in-law used to make regular excuses to go and "inspect the garden" although on one particularly cold day he was caught blowing smoke up our chimney, hoping that no-one would notice!