BOOMER MONOLOGUES Episode 8- "Tobacco Road" Hello. Welcome back to BOOMER MONOLOGUES. This is Episode 8- "Tobacco Road.” I’m inviting you to step back in time with me again, this time to Main Street, USA, circa 1955. I suggest you bring your Covid-19 masks along, though, to filter out some of the hazardous-to-your-health, second-hand smoke you'll definitely encounter there. The mid-Twentieth Century is a very smoky era, a land of Zippo lighters; cigarette-dispensing machines wherever people gather; cigarette commercials with the catchiest jingles; cool TV celebrities smiling their big, alluring smiles while smoking their favorite brands all over the boob tube and urging you to join right in with them; and. last but not least, a handful of very impressionable and vulonerable little nine-year-olds, like me.