I'm so old I Remember when:

[chrissynemetz]

it tastes like licorice (Jager) not a bad thing.

Eww.

 

[Brooks_]

Eww.

Mock me if you like, but I like licorice.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Mock me if you like, but I like licorice.

So do I.

 

[pertnear09]

Brought to you (of course!) by Geritol! Do they even make that stuff any more???

Got a spoonful of that stuff every night for several years as a kid. Been healthy as a horse for 72 years so maybe it builds a good foundation for later years.

 

[chrissynemetz]

Mock me if you like, but I like licorice.

I actually blame Nyquil for my dislike of licorice. Childhood trauma of being forced to drink it.

 

[Kiki]

My story is complicated, lol.

 

[Evadig]

So do I.

Me too. It’s good to chew on when my wisdom teeth are bugging me.

 

[Brooks_]

I actually blame Nyquil for my dislike of licorice. Childhood trauma of being forced to drink it.

But it was 25% booze...

 

[BarnyardChaos]

I had a friend who smoked like a chimney and drank heavily. She wanted to make sure that everyone knew she didn't die from lung cancer. She did die from colon cancer which has been attributed to heavy smoking and heavy drinking.

Sorry about your friend, truly.

I've always been skeptical of how the Big 3 seem to cause everything. If you stub your toe, it's because you smoke or drink or you're fat. Correlation does NOT equal causation.

Much of it is true, I'll grant. But I'd wager that people who smoke, drink or overeat (or all three) are bigger risk-takers overall with their health. (Duh.) So the friend who dies of colon cancer (attributed to smoking and drinking) probably didn't have a great diet, either - and that could very well have been the cause.

My husband is a throat cancer survivor, and he has smoked since his early 20's. Automatically, people assume the cancer is because of smoking. Well, neener neener neener, it's not. It's a strain caused by HPV in his younger years, when people weren't vaccinated for it. Cancer doc said it had nothing to do with his smoking; though they ran a full battery of tests to check, lungs were clear.

I'm just... grrr.... this is one of my soap-box triggers. No matter what ailment I have, the doctors have trained me to be reluctant to seek treatment, because it is ALWAYS because "You need to lose weight and quit smoking." Do non-smokers, non-drinkers, and skinny people never have high cholesterol? Never get Covid? Never have heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, appendicitis? I fell and tore my rotator cuff, and I heard the speech. Get a pap smear and I hear the speech. Get a refill on my acid-reflux medicine and I hear the speech.

I get it... if you hear hoofbeats in Central Park, you're not looking for zebras. But I fear my doctors will overlook my zebra (if I have one) because they're so focused on horses. But let a skinny, non-smoker, non-drinker come in with the same ailment, and they're looking for zebras.

Okay, rant over. I feel better now. Carry on.....

 

[Ponypoor]

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