Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 12/20/24 10:59 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-12-21, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVhY2-gNG9k
 That one brought back memories.  I had a Lionel train set but nothing as
elaborate as that one. There were little pellets you dropped in the
smokestack to create the smoke effect. They probably contained 17
different carcinogens but those were more innocent times.

 Back then, everybody was smoking so much that a few smoke pellets
were neglegible.

>
 Note a lot of those gens are still alive while all
 the latter ones seem to be dropping dead of cancers
 in their 20s/30s.

This is very strange. How come bodies react so differently to cigarettes? I've known old people in their 80s and 90s who smoked all their lives, and I've heard about people in their 50s and 60s dieing of lung cancer. Very strange how differently cigarettes affect peoples health.
An acquaintance had a grandmother who smoked until she was 70 or so, and one day she said... "I've had it, I quit smoking now" and just like that, over a day, she quit smoking.