April 12, 2023

The Good Old Days

David Nabhan

Pretty campy those 50's and 60's movies' smoking and drinking scenes: judges are smoking, and doctors too--during surgery even--and if someone gets shot the first thing they do is put a cigarette in his mouth. Watched Hitchcock's "The Birds" and just as soon as they rescue poor Tippi Hedren from a mass bird attack, immediate first aid is a shot of whiskey. We dared to laugh, but I'm convinced now their culture was heads and shoulders above what passes for ours today, no?

Tim adds:

Perhaps these things cost pepple a couple of years at the end of their lives - when they wouldn't enjoy them anyway. But now the State steals all the joy from everyone's life in their "best interest" and our society is teetering. Now why is that? Could it be those little vices were necessary for a psychologically healthy society? Now we don't smoke or drink - but we shag everything, animal, vegetable, or mineral, and half of our people have some sort of venereal disease and the rest come from broken homes, broken by their parents shagging just as much. And we have drug abuse, we have kids wanting to cut off their johnsons, we have all manner of nsanity. So who were the crazy ones? Seems a cigarette or martini was a small price to pay for a sane society.

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1 I never smoked, though both parents did and it killed 'em both. Dad died at 65, Mom at 76, I've made it to 80 in good shape. I've never enjoyed being around smokers, from the get-go, and was very happy when Minnesota made it illegal to smoke in public buildings quite a few years ago.


They both introduced me to "Demon Rum", though, for which I've been eternally grateful, as I figure it's helped preserve me in the state I find myself in currently (and I don't mean Minnesota). Actually, rum's about the only offering from the bar that I seldom imbibe...

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 12, 2023 10:56 PM (QlyGH)

2 Same here Dana, except my parents lived a lot longer. My mom died at 82 from a stroke/heart attack and I am certain it was because she smoked. She had high blood presCOPD a few years ago and threw the cigs away and just celebrated his 92nd birthday in March.  He looks to be good for another ten years at least!  His mother, who smoked regularly, lived to 102.

I tend to think smoking affects different people differently.

I never cared for it though and I don't like being around smokers either, but they do tend to be mire fun than the non-smokers. There is a local bar near my home Cathy and I sometimes drop in on. They have a "garage" where people can smoke. We usually go out into the garage even though we aren't smokers; the people out there are more fun!

At any rate I understand your not liking it. But I do wonder which vice was worse. Now our society says smoking is evil and banging the entire cast of Hamilton at the same time is simply hunky-dory.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 13, 2023 08:24 AM (P9nlt)

3 Pretty campy those 50's and 60's movies' smoking and drinking scenes: judges are smoking

Posted by: Replica Watches at May 11, 2023 05:54 AM (n8Q6n)

4 We dared to laugh, but I'm convinced now their culture was heads and shoulders above what passes for ours today, no?

Posted by: mywatchesuk at August 06, 2023 05:53 AM (gcW8s)

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