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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not to defend chain smoking grandparents, but whenever these threads come up, I always wonder if there were as many nonsmokers who were allergic to smoke or get headaches from the mere odor of tobacco back when the vast majority of the country smoked.

Did they just suffer in silence or have we become more sensitive (like the peanut and other food allergies)? [/quote]

I believe research did find that children and adults who were around smokers were more likely to suffer a number of ill effects, whether non-scientists knew it was from smoking or not.  So there's that causal-correlation research.

But the other thing is, if you're not around smoking and then suddenly you come in contact with it, you DEFINITELY notice it.  Back in "the day," there was so much smoking in public and private, that maybe ppl got psychologically (not physically) used to the smell.  But I'll tell you, I can smell cigar or cigarette smoke from a great distance, and yeah, I find it totally unpleasant.  My instinct is to get the hell away.  It's narsty.

One of our regular UPS drivers must be a chain smoker.  The boxes he delivers smell like smoke, get close to him and he smells like a stale cigarette.  I don't think he's evil.  I think he's addicted.  Super nice guy.  (Just, please, keep your distance!)[/quote]

I'm old enough that I had to deal with smoking restaurants and planes and cabs etc.I have asthma and allergies and it bothered me back in the day.

Now, advances in medical care does mean we probably have more allergic people make it to adulthood. Natural selection would have taken me out a long time ago, without steroid shots, nebulizers, antibiotics for pneumonia etc, when I was a kid.[/quote]

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