I knew that but my fingers have a mind of their own and the editing feature turns off quickly.....OP
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Does Sheryl Crow still smoke
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Yep, I tried it once before they had the warning labels on them and didn't care for it. It's a tobacco leaf ground down to a powder. It does give you a mild nicotine rush and a sneeze or two.
My dad used it sometimes. He was a vocalist and didn't want any smoke pass by his vocal cords, so he'd use snuff
or Copenhagen chew. His father came from the old country and was a skilled cigar maker.
He'd buy the tobacco leaves wholesale and a thicker leaf to roll the tobacco in.
My dad would help him age the leaves in the basement and turn the over regularly. Grandpa had 4 people cutting the leaves for the inside
to an exact length,
make piles and the other two workers would hand roll the cigars and put 5 in a clear package and some singles in a box.
They'd load up their little hand carts and go downtown New York with each standing on a different corner hawking "The best tasting 5 cent cigar money can buy!"
They had a loyal following of buyers because he specialized in a dark tobacco which was just like they had in the old country.
To what I understand about Snuff was in Europe in the 17th and 18th century. When the Gentry, upper or ruling class, had to travel among the peasants, in order to avoid the horrific smell from no sanitation or showers, the ladies would keep a perfumed handkerchief up to their nose and the men would sniff or snort snuff throughout the ride.
Funny how in the movies peasants and poor people were shown as clean shaven, clean clothes, the girls had perfectly coiffed hair and make up on? Truth be known, no one had tooth brushes or tooth paste, soap, deodorant, hairdressers or barbers. Their diets were so lacking in nutrient essentials there was a saying for women with many child, "They lost a tooth for every child" if the fetus needed calcium for it's development the woman's body would be used for the needed calcium, usually from the mothers teeth or bones. Life was very hard in those days. No antibiotics, aspirin or available doctors. You could die from a simple fever. I you lived to be 40 years old you were lucky and thought of as a wise old man or a plain old nuisance to care for, especially because Depends hadn't been invented yet.
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Now that there's a hot cowgirl. She could probably kick my ass, drink me under then table the pull me up by the shirt collar and tell me to run down to the nearest 7-11 and get her another can of Skoal and be quick about she'd say, before I start getting interested in these other handsome cowboys checking me out. And run I would.
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Fags - tried them as a teenager, nah!
Both my parents smoked. The old boy went from Woodbine and Capstan Full Strength to B&H one day and never went back, probably on advice from GP. Died at 63 from various conditions, all brought on by smoking.
On the subject of excessive smoking/chain smoking, I once worked with a guy who lit up regularly at work.We worked together in a small retail shop and the clouds of fag-smoke would do my head in, as well as my eyes. But he had 'enablers', if you could call them that. If any other of his smoking pals came into the shop, an alarming process took place. They would chew the fat and then chain-smoke, one lighting up and 'crashing' a fag to the other just as he was blowing the last smoke out from his finished fag. The cycle was continuous, and I would watch my colleague and swear he was getting some kind of sexual kick out of the whole process.
That day, I had to leave the shop as the air was so thick. Fortunately, a few months later the Scottish Government banned smoking in the workplace and in work vehicles. That really cheesed my colleague off and he'd have to go and take his fag-breaks - now seriously curtailed - outside the shop.
As an associated aside, the same kind of law was put in place for pubs and restaurants. Anyone wishing to smoke had to go outside, where repository bins for duds were now provided. Male and female smokers would chat each other up outside, a term that became known as 'Smirting', an amalgamation of 'smoking' and 'flirting'.
I really don't miss going home after a days work with my clothes reeking of fag-smoke. There's no other reek like it in the world!
Both my parents smoked. The old boy went from Woodbine and Capstan Full Strength to B&H one day and never went back, probably on advice from GP. Died at 63 from various conditions, all brought on by smoking.
On the subject of excessive smoking/chain smoking, I once worked with a guy who lit up regularly at work.We worked together in a small retail shop and the clouds of fag-smoke would do my head in, as well as my eyes. But he had 'enablers', if you could call them that. If any other of his smoking pals came into the shop, an alarming process took place. They would chew the fat and then chain-smoke, one lighting up and 'crashing' a fag to the other just as he was blowing the last smoke out from his finished fag. The cycle was continuous, and I would watch my colleague and swear he was getting some kind of sexual kick out of the whole process.
That day, I had to leave the shop as the air was so thick. Fortunately, a few months later the Scottish Government banned smoking in the workplace and in work vehicles. That really cheesed my colleague off and he'd have to go and take his fag-breaks - now seriously curtailed - outside the shop.
As an associated aside, the same kind of law was put in place for pubs and restaurants. Anyone wishing to smoke had to go outside, where repository bins for duds were now provided. Male and female smokers would chat each other up outside, a term that became known as 'Smirting', an amalgamation of 'smoking' and 'flirting'.
I really don't miss going home after a days work with my clothes reeking of fag-smoke. There's no other reek like it in the world!
A friend of mine worked in a Birmingham cigarette factory when she was a teenager, in the early 1960s. She was given a carton of cigarettes with her pay envelope every Saturday. She said that the workers used to joke that Woodbine cigarettes contained mostly factory floor sweepings.
Joke? Probably an element of truth in that, for I know a guy who used to work in a factory, on a conveyor-belt packing, long before automation. The company made, amongst other things, various stuffings, like Sage and Onion stuffing. He and his colleagues used to put 'additional organic substances' into the boxes as they came along the conveyor-belt, prior to sealing. I'm sure you could imagine what some of these substances were.
A fresh Marlboro Light fired up from my old Zippo, I still miss it 21 years later......
Used to smoke as a yout, quit many times. Last quit was the final one, about 45 years ago. Not easy, for sure!
Daring to go slightly OT, but we're still talking Crow and "health," as far as SC goes, I really don't care what she does to/for her health. Someone ought to ask her about Kevin Gilbert....
Daring to go slightly OT, but we're still talking Crow and "health," as far as SC goes, I really don't care what she does to/for her health. Someone ought to ask her about Kevin Gilbert....
I know she always has a smokin' band. It features Robert Kearns on bass and Audley Freed on guitar. Those guys have been pro sidemen for decades. They also played together in a regional band out of Raleigh called Sidewinder in the 80s, and a band called Cry of Love that had some radio/touring success in the 90s. Thos guys have played together off and on for dang near 40 years now. And both are stellar musicians.
(My first show ever was opening for Sidewinder in about ...1987?....88?)
(My first show ever was opening for Sidewinder in about ...1987?....88?)
Actually, I hate the timbre of Justin Timberlake's voice and keep thinking that a little 'vocal sandpaper' in the form of whisky and cigs might in his case be an improvement.
That’s what gives them the raspy bluesie voice.
Having been a smoker for 25 years and a musician for 50+ I can say until the late 80s that smell wasn’t there. They have added some type of chemicals that do that nasty thing. anyway I also enjoy smoking, never said it was good for you, but enjoyed non the less. When I was 40 I stopped smoking in the house and left them outside. At 41 I started to notice a slight weezing when I would lay down and decided the time had come. I have had a smoke now and then in the last 29 years , even started to enjoy cigars the last few years. That too has stopped. I was lucky I quit just quit, but some people aren’t that strong
Duke
She doesn’t smoke, but she’s still smokin’.
They were a tough cigarette but suitable after a large meal with a Whiskey
I was explaining to one of the kids that I used to get 50g of Marlboro , Zigzags and Boomerang Filters for less than $10
Nowadays it’s over $100 just for the Tobacco
Nate King Cole, Sheryl Crowe, Keeth Richards, Mike Jagger - All the cool kids are moving to more E’s nowadays.
