Subject: Re: Smoking !
From: LR Pearson, Arts 99 (lp9616@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 10:12:05 GMT
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:58:31 -0500 (EST) Paul Kennedy
<kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca> wrote:
>
> (Purely on a sociological--or is it anthropological?--level, though, I've
> noticed a marked decline in smoking, even in Europe. Nowhere near as many
> people smoke in England today, for example, as I remember smoking when I was
> a student in Britain--which was only shortly after Walter Raleigh brought
> tobbaco back with him from Virginia Colonie.... Some of my best British
> friends--many of them former smokers--are now anti-tobacco terrorists.... I
> couldn't really care one way or the other, to tell you the truth. Although
> I should say that there HAS been some sickly-sweet-smelling smoke escaping
> from the doors and windows of Amsterdam coffee shops on recent trips. And
> I've been trying to determine exactly what sort of smoke THAT is....)
>
Paul,
While smoking is definitely less acceptable than it once was, it is
still pretty prevalent in Britain. I am twenty, and probably more than
half my peers smoke, and have smoked since they were 12 or 13. As for
that mysterious sickly sweet kind of smoke, I only know about 2 or 3
people not intimately accquainted with it!
Love, Lucy-Ruth
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LR Pearson, Arts 99
lp9616@bristol.ac.uk
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