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From: "Tari Adams - Manager - Northern Medical Systems" <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Re: Melungeon-D Digest V01 #99
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 08:45:28 -0800
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They used to have what they called " asthma cigarettes" . My mom
still laughs about her first experience was her and her cousin
sneaking out with one of Granmaws "special" cigarettes for a try. She
said they were awful LOL!!!!

Tari
"Yigaguu osaniyu adanvto nigohilvi nasquv utloyasdi nihi"
"May the Great Spirit's blessings always be with you"
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Subject: [Melungeon] Re: Melungeon-D Digest V01 #99


> 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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