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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GraceK" data-source="post: 390431" data-attributes="member: 47233"><p>My Grandad smoked Bondman tobacco in roll ups all his life.  He also smoked a pipe and chewed tobacco and drank a tot of Navy Rum every day plus half a glass of Guinness.  He was 96 when he died, I don't remember him ever being short of breath or having a cough or an illness come to that, although he did have a hernia operation at the age of 86.  He was born in 1882 though and died in 1978 so I don't think tobacco had all the chemicals in it that it does now and I must admit, what he smoked smelled lovely, not like the stuff people smoke these days.  My Grandmother on the other hand, died of TB at the age of 62, along with 3 of their children.  The remaining children (my Mum was one of them) all smoked normal packet cigarettes and had COPD by the time they were 40 and two died in their 50's.  My Mum smoked well into her 50's until she developed COPD.  If you looked at all the chemicals in today's cigarettes, I don't think anyone with any sense would smoke.  (By the way, I'm not pontificating, I took up smoking at the ripe old age of 39 and almost smoked myself to death for 10 years before finally giving up.  I hate the damned things but in a moment of high stress and great weakness, I took one that was offered to me and that was it.)  :roll:</p></blockquote><p></p>

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