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Post by waltonfan1 on Aug 24, 2010 12:13:32 GMT -5
I love the carnival episode where the girl lights a cigarette at the table.....all the kids had never seen a woman smoke before. Too funny
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Post by dfnmeows44 on Aug 24, 2010 18:43:10 GMT -5
A year and a half before the Waltons came on there was an anti-smoking episode on The Brady Bunch. At the end ,Carol and Mike Brady (or Florence Henderson and Robert Reed if you prefer)both admitted that they had smoked in the past, but that was before there was so much evidence that smoking was harmful.
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Post by bullgator on Aug 24, 2010 21:02:05 GMT -5
No citrus in Virginia, but the area around Charlottesville has many apple orchards and vineyards. Smoking, like drinking, was frowned upon by many religiously conservatives like Grandma and Olivia.
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Post by bothepug on Aug 25, 2010 11:51:21 GMT -5
It was just a way of life for alot of people, you just accepted people smoked, while it might have been a nasty habit to some, it did not have the witch hunt mindset that we have today about smoking. I have wondered what was burned up in the house fire, and what they did lose. It seems as though in later years the attic was full of stuff or is that just my imagenation?
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Post by Marilyn on Aug 25, 2010 17:53:08 GMT -5
It was just a way of life for alot of people, you just accepted people smoked, while it might have been a nasty habit to some, it did not have the witch hunt mindset that we have today about smoking. I have wondered what was burned up in the house fire, and what they did lose. It seems as though in later years the attic was full of stuff or is that just my imagenation? Even though they showed the roof area being in flames, the attic mysteriously survived!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2010 19:16:20 GMT -5
Tonight,I watched The Calf from season 1 and John was smoking a pipe.I had forgotten that he smoked in that episode.
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Post by waltons72 on Oct 4, 2010 12:30:02 GMT -5
Even though they showed the roof area being in flames, the attic mysteriously survived! [/quote]
They could had some kind speical effects that was behind the house that may have produce the flames.
and these days people wouldn`t been allow to walk through a burnout house or stay in a burn out house if you notice some of the waltons kids was barefooted when the walked through the burn out house. I wonder if Earl's real home place burn also.
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Post by DocPlum on Oct 4, 2010 14:47:27 GMT -5
My computer crashed yesterday. I'm using my son's at the moment, but that won't last long. My computer repair friend is coming over tomorrow, so pray for my machine. Anyway, I also watched "The Calf" recently and John was definitely smoking a pipe. No matter what the attitudes toward smoking in the 30's, by the 70's the danger was being publicized and the choice to stop John smoking may have been based on 70's attitudes, not 30's. Although pipes (since you don't inhale) are probably not as dangerous. Lip cancer CAN happen not as often. John smoking was not important even for the period, so why promote it?
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Post by Marilyn on Oct 4, 2010 17:26:13 GMT -5
Even though they showed the roof area being in flames, the attic mysteriously survived! They could had some kind speical effects that was behind the house that may have produce the flames. and these days people wouldn`t been allow to walk through a burnout house or stay in a burn out house if you notice some of the waltons kids was barefooted when the walked through the burn out house. I wonder if Earl's real home place burn also. [/quote] Yes, it was special effects.
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Post by kazk on Oct 7, 2010 19:27:17 GMT -5
I always love Grandma's very strident comment to the lady smoking in The Actress. She tells her that if the Good Lord had've wanted us to smoke he would have put a chimney in our heads! You have to love Grandma!!
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Post by Marilyn on Oct 16, 2010 12:30:28 GMT -5
I always love Grandma's very strident comment to the lady smoking in The Actress. She tells her that if the Good Lord had've wanted us to smoke he would have put a chimney in our heads! You have to love Grandma!! We've got a sign to tack up inside the barn that says, 'If you're smoking, you'd better be on fire!'
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Post by dfnmeows44 on Oct 21, 2010 17:50:47 GMT -5
It was mentioned yesterday morning on The Sunrise Morning Show on EWTN Radio that the tobacco industry HAD KNOWN about the harm smoking could do as far back as 1928 and they suppresxed the evidence until it became obvious. When looking for the front page of the newspaper of the day the mother of the girl who gave me Erin the cat was born(Feberury 25,1946)_ there is an ad in the same issue of the newspaper containinig a picture of Babe Ruth smoking a cigarette. Babe Ruth would die of throat cancer the day after the woman's future husband's third birthday----
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Post by Marilyn on Oct 21, 2010 19:00:03 GMT -5
Seems to me the Marlboro Man also died of lung cancer. Towards the end of his life, I thought he did some ads against smoking?
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Post by dfnmeows44 on Oct 21, 2010 19:09:22 GMT -5
I know that he did die of lung cancer as well as the man who did the'Call for Phillip Morris ' commercial.
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