Heavens, I seem to be out on a limb, looking at the other responses!

I grew up in an atmosphere of yacht clubs and big bands and my mother was a teacher, so my early youth was surrounded by fagends and beer: stale smoke has got that sort of nostalgia to it to me...

Aha, you say, that's why she's asthmatic! but honestly, I don't think it is, my grandfather was exactly the same: I think I just got the wheezy genes.