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Topic: Astronauts who smoke (or smoked) cigarettes
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Skyguy48
Member Posts: 142
From: Scotland
Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 04-17-2014 05:18 PM
   
Let's kick this one about... Back in the 60s when it was considered "normal" or even "cool" to smoke, we know that some of the Apollo guys smoked. Did any of them, or indeed Dee O'Hara, ever wonder if they would have suffered any kind of cigarette withdrawal on a lunar mission? Editor's note: Threads merged. |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 649
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 04-17-2014 07:29 PM
Neil Armstrong smoked a pipe, at least. Even after he left NASA. I recall that when he was teaching at the U. of Cincinnati, he would occasionally leave his pipe and tobacco pouch (adorned with the Apollo II emblem) on a campus bench, or wherever, and it was always returned to him. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3120
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 04-18-2014 12:24 PM
Did anyone ever ask Al Worden how he coped? |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 04-18-2014 12:37 PM
Cigarette smoking is as much, or more, a mental habit as it is a physical addiction. While on a mission the astronauts were completely involved intellectually and had no time to "take a smoke break".Am sure that during spaceflight training they practiced going extended periods without smoking. Surely that helped prepare them for their lunar ventures. |
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