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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 728708" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>I had a boyfriend whose mother never did anything without a cig in her mouth. She would be cooking and she could flick her face a couple of degrees and the ash would fly into the ashtray she had nearby. She never missed and her ash chain would be half the cigarette or more. When she got sick and i visited her in the hospital, in the early 1980's, when you could still smoke in the hospital, there she was, with a cigarette in her mouth. I dated her son for 7 years and she never got ash in the food!</p><p></p><p>Here's a gross but true story. I'm Jewish, which I mention in the context of this story just to show that I was (at least at that time) unfamiliar with the concept of the Italian wake. It was the early 1990's and H took me to the wake of the cousin of one of his friend's mothers. The deceased was in her 70's. As I stood there, I overheard the following conversation about the dead woman: "OMG, what a great job they did with her." "Yes, I know. It's absolutely wonderful, she's so beautiful." "You know, I have to say that I have never seen her looking better than she does in her casket." At that point, I went over to H and told him what I had overheard. He then told me that the dead woman had been an inveterate smoker, that she had terminal lung cancer but that what actually killed her was that she sneaked cigarettes into the hospital and caused an explosion in her oxygen tent! Yes, cigarettes actually DO kill!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 728708, member: 3493"] I had a boyfriend whose mother never did anything without a cig in her mouth. She would be cooking and she could flick her face a couple of degrees and the ash would fly into the ashtray she had nearby. She never missed and her ash chain would be half the cigarette or more. When she got sick and i visited her in the hospital, in the early 1980's, when you could still smoke in the hospital, there she was, with a cigarette in her mouth. I dated her son for 7 years and she never got ash in the food! Here's a gross but true story. I'm Jewish, which I mention in the context of this story just to show that I was (at least at that time) unfamiliar with the concept of the Italian wake. It was the early 1990's and H took me to the wake of the cousin of one of his friend's mothers. The deceased was in her 70's. As I stood there, I overheard the following conversation about the dead woman: "OMG, what a great job they did with her." "Yes, I know. It's absolutely wonderful, she's so beautiful." "You know, I have to say that I have never seen her looking better than she does in her casket." At that point, I went over to H and told him what I had overheard. He then told me that the dead woman had been an inveterate smoker, that she had terminal lung cancer but that what actually killed her was that she sneaked cigarettes into the hospital and caused an explosion in her oxygen tent! Yes, cigarettes actually DO kill! [/QUOTE]
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