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Doctors once tried tobacco-smoke enemas to revive the drowned
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CPR wasn't invented yet, so doctors improvised in the worst way imaginable. In the 18th century, medical experts theorized that the warmth and stimulating properties of tobacco smoke could restart a dead heart. They designed specialized bellows strictly for pumping smoke up the rear ends of people pulled from rivers. It was utterly useless, but it left behind a fantastic idiom.
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