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Subject: [Melungeon] Re: Melungeon-D Digest V01 #99
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 00:59:12 EST


I think that tobacco today has so much chemicals on it and that is what
causes the medical problems that it is blamed for today, plus using it to
excess. I smoke maybe a pack a day and didn't smoke but a half a pack and
never before about noon, until they decided that we couldn't smoke at work.
In fact I had just lost a baby, and had not been smoking due to my pregnancy.
They told us we couldn't, so I went out, bought a pack and started again. I
do want to cut back again, but I am sure a lot of folks are like me, and
started smoking more often sense you couldn't at work, you also try to get in
more on a break. I started lighting up right after breakfast, something I
had never done, because it smelled so bad. I could not stand that smell in
the A.M. Now I am used to it. Isn't that strange?
My old Grannie and my Mom in law both used to have a smoker (neither were
smokers) blow smoke in their children's ears when they had earaches, that was
plain old country and mountain medicine. I expect that it was just the warmth
of it that helped the pain, I don't know though. I have also heard that at
one time they used it for asthma, so if that did make the person better
something has to be different about what we are getting today.
One time when we were back in Ky. I saw in a newspaper where the governor was
trying to get them to use the tobacco for medicine, in order to keep the
tobacco farmers in business, but I don't know what it was to be used for. We
have several family members down there who farm it.
Judy

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