We were going up in smoke . . .

For years we were bombarded with advertising like the above.  I’m going to show you a few of these this week.  Read the paragraph that assures us cigarettes won’t hurt us.

I was suckered in, and I smoked for many years.  I finally quit by attending a class at my hospital offered by Smokenders, Inc.  When I had been tobacco-free for a year Smokenders contacted me and asked if I would take some training and go to work for them.  I did, and spent a few years travelling to Midwestern cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, Kansas City, etc.  These were the years that large corporations were making their buildings smoke-free and offering our program to help their employees quit.  So my classes were sometimes very large.  It was interesting, and I have a whole chapter written about it which I will include in my book.

Oh, I didn’t tell you I’m working on a book?  Watch for it late this fall if my plans materialize. 

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