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Education & Knowledge 1h ago

What Smoking Does to Your Lungs

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What Smoking Does to Your Lungs

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MikeDunnAuthor 4h ago

Today in Labor History November 22, 1891: Dr. Edward L. Bernays was born in Vienna, Austria. Bernays, a nephew of Freud, is considered by many to be father of public relations. He is credited with getting millions of women to start smoking with his “Torches of Freedom” cigarette ad campaign that equated smoking with feminism, and with women’s liberation and independence. He also worked to legitimize the CIA/United Fruit overthrow of the democratically-elected Arbenz government in Guatemalan, becoming the primary supplier of information for the international newswires, like Associated Press, United Press International, and the International News Service. He described the masses as irrational and subject to herd instinct and wrote books on how to harness this to maximize profits. In the 1930s, his critics compared him to Goebbels and Hitler, and Goebbels did, indeed, read and utilize Bernays’s books to inform his propaganda campaigns. Bernays was even offered a job by the Nazis, which he reportedly turned down. He also supposedly turned down propaganda job offers from the the Spanish fascist dictator, Francisco, Franco and the brutal Somoza family, in Nicaragua.

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Swede’s Photographs 7h ago

Good morning. ☕☕☕

22 November 2025

Do you remember when all cars had ashtrays? Most had one built into the dash that you could pull out, and often there was another in the back seat. Those have mostly gone the way of the dodo now, since far fewer people smoke. You can still buy car ashtrays, but they’re usually just add-ons.

I had the habit myself when I was younger, though I quit decades ago. I can still picture the ashtray overflowing with cigarette butts. It wasn’t unusual at all for people to smoke in their cars back then. In fact, climbing in and lighting up seemed to go hand in hand. Looking back, it feels rather horrid—I wonder how I ever tolerated driving on a winter day with the windows rolled up, puffing away in a smoke-filled cabin. Even now, I occasionally see someone doing that as they drive by, and my thought is simply, “oh my.” I’m not being judgmental, but I do notice it and can’t help but reflect that it used to be me—ugh.

I didn’t realize smokers carried a distinct stale odor until I finally kicked the habit, which I know was no small feat. Only then did I imagine how much worse it must have been inside a car, sealed up with smoke. I suspect former smokers notice it more sharply than others.

Anyway, live and learn. Most of us eventually did. Cigarettes, for whatever reason, still persist—one of the great American industries. I can still recall the alluring commercials on TV, with slogans like, “...taste good like a cigarette should.” Those words once filled the airwaves, shaping habits that now feel so distant.

“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Quitting smoking is easy, I’ve done it hundreds of times.” — Mark Twain

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