[QUOTE]Originally posted by narwhal
[B]For those in Botnst's area its not a miracle--its the gris gris. My wife's great grandmother from New Iberia died last year at 96 and there was a filterless Pall Mall butt still smoking in the ashtray next to her chair as she expired. Didn't die of cancer or emphysema either. She was what they call a traton (sp?) or treater in cajun.
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I think that's a 'traiture' and they conduct 'traiton'; but I'm anglo, not cajun, so this is all unfolding as I live down heah.

If only granny hadn't smoked, she'd have lived a lot longer.

I used to smoke Camels. I was a kid fresh into the Navy. I guess smoking made me look like a grown-up, huh? Smoked for about 15 years, stopped about 15 years ago. I still miss smoking sometimes.