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Yours was one of those designs?

Hebrews 1 speaks of angels as 'ministering spirits sent to minister to them that shall be heirs of salvation'.

Half a pack, then; but you're managing without any at the moment, then...well done!

Don't forget, ppl, that the poll closes tomorrow! :)

Sometimes the clock is all over the place...

It became very popular when groups of women organized during World War One to send cigarettes to the troops. About this time, women started smoking cigarettes also in large numbers.

I think the reference is to the Rapture (1 Thess. 4).

@OzSpan : PS: This is the quote referred to also earlier in the thread: forums dot thewelltrainedmind dot com Whatever one thinks of the practice, it certainly has opened up the potential for faith based witness in ink, given the sheer prevalence of the practice.

Yes, and parlors these days are often more like salons than the dingy industrial section stores that bikers and military ppl would go to, generations back. I saw a quote from the Bible Belt in the US which shows just how widespread it is now among church women.

Yes, she enjoys it a lot!

Thank-you, Sir. I still don't see Booth's claimed trip to Rome / work as a Swiss Guard part of the story...

Good for people to quit if they can. But also your account of your mother smoking cigarettes after her doctor told her they would be good for her causes me to say that people ought not to be too hard on ppl who do smoke...

John Wilkes Booth - Wikipedia I don't see the trip to Rome / work as a Swiss Guard part of the story in the Wikipedia article...

I see... I was reading also how 70 - 80 years ago tobacco corporations would target doctors and regularly use what was purportedly advice from them in their cigarette advertising. As Randolph Hearst said: "Puff (Billy) Graham"...

Interesting way of putting it!

Yes, and these days the tattooee is statistically more likely to be s 'she', as well. (At least in North America; I don't know about Aus/NZ.)

Does he? I didn't pick that up. Thanks for the response.

@OzSpen PS: Your tattoo photo that you kindly uploaded was quite a success! Thank-you! :)

Sorry; what does "it", refer to here? :confused:

It just goes to show that the past is a foreign country. I am imagining your dear mom lighting her cigarettes and thinking of her doctor's advice that smoking would be good for her. It used to be rather widespread for women to smoke after church, prior to the American Civil War, apparently. In...