Buying cigarettes at a hospital bedside in the 1950s - photo

Good Samaritan Hospital Ladies Auxiliary visiting a patient in his hospital bed. They are bringing amusements, candy and cigarettes. The nurse is helping him hold a current Readers Digest. Photo by Clyde Putnam Jr. Ca. 1955. Portland, Oregon.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...791#post209971
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...659#post212732
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...555#post205450
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...177#post176596
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...057#post125564

I worked in the laboratory and pharmacy in two hospitals and it was common for people smoking in the building, no one thought anything of it back then.