Re: Why did Doyle die so young? (Sir A.Conan Doyle died at the age of 71)

Peter Moylan wrote:

> I read a lot of science fiction from the 1940s and 1950s, and there one
> finds that in the far distant future, in the days of the Galactic
> Empire, for example, almost everyone smokes.

Neither of my parents smoked - that is my mother used to smoke 25
cigarettes a day before she had children, but then she stopped
completely. When they friends visiting, they would pass around a dish
with cigarettes and small cigars. Everyone - as I remember - smoked then
even if they normally didn't.

A bit strange because my mother warned us against smoking and explained
about the risks. We three brothers smoked at some time as did my father.
My sisters haven't, apart from hash of course. I and my little brother
stopped a long time ago. The middle brother smoked right until he died
from an unhealthy living and pneumonia (aged 75).

-- 
Bertel
Kolt, Denmark