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Did war brides make an impact on women's smoking?
Author: Korean War Bride	May 31, 2008 at 07:58:01

	In 1952, I became a teen-age war bride. A lot of Korean girls married Anerican solgiers in that era. My Hank was 37 and retiring after 20 years of service. We lived a happy and productive life. By 1970, we had seven children. When the seventh came, I reluctantly agreed to have my tubes tied. It was during that hospital stay that my granddaughter gave me a cigarette. She gave me several. I left the hospital with a cigarette addiction. It took me four years to tell the family I had become westernized. By then our oldest daughter was 19 and a smoker. While family and friends acceped our daughter's smoking, they wondered what was wrong with me. Afterall, our daughter had been smoking since she was 15 and it was not harming her collegiate gymnasyic career. Thankfully, Hank Junior assumed center stage by becoming the father of a girl the next year. Flash forward to the present. I'm 73. I plan to quit smoking on my 75th birthday. I wonder if you guys of that era ever noticed or heard about war brides collectively making any kind of dent in women's smoking traditions.
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	Name:    E-Mail:    Subject:    > In 1952, I became a teen-age war bride. A lot of Korean > girls married Anerican solgiers in that era. My Hank was 37 > and retiring after 20 years of service. We lived a happy > and productive life. By 1970, we had seven children. When > the seventh came, I reluctantly agreed to have my tubes > tied. It was during that hospital stay that my > granddaughter gave me a cigarette. She gave me several. I > left the hospital with a cigarette addiction. It took me > four years to tell the family I had become westernized. By > then our oldest daughter was 19 and a smoker. While family > and friends acceped our daughter's smoking, they wondered > what was wrong with me. Afterall, our daughter had been > smoking since she was 15 and it was not harming her > collegiate gymnasyic career. Thankfully, Hank Junior > assumed center stage by becoming the father of a girl the > next year. > > Flash forward to the present. I'm 73. I plan to quit smoking on my 75th birthday. I wonder if you guys of that era ever noticed or heard about war brides collectively making any kind of dent in women's smoking traditions.