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Cigarettes in old time radio was wild

Here lately, I've been listening to an old time radio show called Dragnet, uh, was recorded in 1949 195951, uh, and it's a phenomenal show. Great acting great special effects. Everything about it is good. It's amazing to hear how different Society was back. Then, the main sponsor of this show is a cigarette company. However, everybody was just smoking anyways, but especially on this show everybody smoking a bunch. You got a light Joe? Yep. Well, the most 1 of those recent episodes, I listened to the main character. Joe Friday gets shot a couple of times he's in surgery. The doctors don't know if he's going to make it or not. His partner is there saying, hey, can I, you know, I want to go see him and they're saying, no, the next 4 hours are really important. We're not letting anybody in. And the partner says, well, can I just take in this carton of cigarettes for when he wakes up like that was just normal everyday life. Yep he's going to wake up from having been shot. A couple of times and going through surgery, and just puff away on some sigs. But, you know, everything was really different back then, especially about cigarettes.
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