Smoking advice "Help Needed"

[j.sabourn]

Was recently in hospital for day surgery to remove a growth on voice box, just about had no voice for about 3 months before plucked up courage to see a specialist. Was certain in my mind it was something serious as I had smoked up until about 30 years ago, about 80 a day, duty free of course. The pollop was removed 2 months ago and sent for a biopsy. Have heard nothing back so assume it was not malignant, I was sure in my mind it was. I consider myself very lucky. I also know people who have never smoked with the same as I had and was the big C. I would not be able to afford to smoke the way I used to, which at the time was the main reason for my stopping. Cheers John Sabourn

[Ivan Cloherty]

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Were it not for the fact that I have children I would cancel Xmas this year because I'm struggling to find that cheery spirit we're supposed to have.

Julie there are few words of comfort that one can give in these situations, my first wife a non smoker and non drinker died of cancer in both lungs and the liver when young leaving me with two teenage daughters, but during her short illness she always insisted that we did not grieve and only remembered the happy times and the most important thing was to make sure the children were kept happy. I feel sure that your father would wish the same and I can assure you that you never forget but you always do remember the good times and have a smile to yourself, I do now even 20 years later. Remember the funny things your dad did and say to your children "Do you remember when grandad did........". There are of course times when you are going to cry, that is unavoidable and human nature, thank god,

I am sure that your father would not want you to have a morose Christmas, but would want you to raise your glasses 'to absent friends' and enjoy the occasion as normal as we all do on here. There is no guilt in feeling happy and your father would want to be the last one to put a brake on the occasion.

Kind regards

Ivan

[Captain Kong]

I am convinced that if I had not stopped smoking 23 and a half years ago I would be dead now.
I have just had a full medical and on blowing in the machine the computer said I had the lungs of a 60 year old, Not sure what that meant, 60 year old what?
But no problems there.
But I see a lot of people outside the hospital in dressing gowns, with a stand on a drip, and one lady last week had an Oxygen mask on with a small machine on the bench, pulling it down , having a puff on a ciggy , coughing and putting the Oxygen mask back on again. all of them smoking outside the main entrance from off the Wards,and most of them were women.
Now that is daft..
On the Financial side, , at todays prices for cigs I have saved the equivelant of over £55,000, and I can do a lot of travelling around the planet with the money I saved and invested.
So it has got to be good.
cheers.

[Neville Roberts]

while growning up in smokey Liverpool in the 30,s and 40,s with all the coal fires going gung hoe , I,m sure that many people got ill from just that . going too sea we had the freshest air on the planet .so maybe that helped us a bit ,even if we smoked , I smoked for 54 years and worked in the smoke filled restaurants of new york city for 21 years , we could smoke anywhere at that time .I even remember in the doctors office he had a large ash tray opn his desk filled with butts,and I have known a few people that never smoked that died of cancer ,and heart attacks . but gigarettes have become the black sheep now ,and seconhand smoke is touted a s bad as smoking ,I still would like a smoke now and then even after 5 years this march off them ,and even love the smell of them .eeek gorra go for a peice of( chewing gum chum) . thats what we used to say too the yanks in England during the war and after.

[Keith Tindell]

Thinking back to the good old sea days, and smoking, which most of us did, why were we sold mostly American cigs, we did have senior service, but unless my memory is wrong, it was mainly lucky strike etc. was this down to profit?. Thankfully i no longer smoke, but just wondering KT

[Ivan Cloherty]

Thinking back to the good old sea days, and smoking, which most of us did, why were we sold mostly American cigs, we did have senior service, but unless my memory is wrong, it was mainly lucky strike etc. was this down to profit?. Thankfully i no longer smoke, but just wondering KT

Profit may have something to do with it Keith, depended what run you were on, if the ship got the Bond in the Panama Canal then Lucky Strike and Camel were the cheapest to buy and the cheapest in the slop chest, and the American cigarettes were much favoured by the girls, customs and agents as payment for certain services. They found English cigarettes too strong for them. We always bought Senior Service for Paying Off as the girls back home didn't like the Yankee Doodle Ciggies

[Captain Kong]

When I was with Cunard on the New York run, we always had a pack of Luckies or Chesterfield in the top pocket with the flip top. Flick the bottom and a ciggy would jump into the air and catch it tween the lips.
This used to impress the girls in the Locarno in Liverpool when we had a western ocean roll, a midnight blue suit from the Salvation Army in NY, $10 ex morgue, a tie from Tie City on Broadway, white socks and a mid Atlantic accent in the 50s. Great days of posing.
No one would be impressed today. But we had it all.
Cheers
Brian.

[Don Rafferty]

I can remember when, mid to late '60s, the allowance for tipped and untipped cigarettes was messed around with.

The duty was paid on the tobacco content of the cigarette, so 200 Senior Service was considered to have the same amount of tobacco as the equivalent in Golden Virginia rolling tobacco, anyone with Rothmans, Benson and Hedges etc., were shortcharged on their limit and 220/240 were allowed.

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi shipmates. The best came in tins players navy cut or was that rolling stuff. I have a few empty tins of it somewhere long ago they were used up, I allways smoked sweet afton an Irish brand, if I could get them? did not like the yankee ones, but the british ones were good. but I dont smoke anymore .

[John Pruden]

some packs had a zippo lighter with them.jp