I doubt if she smoked most of those 3 packs of cigarettes all the way down. I'd almost bet the total number of actual drags she inhaled in 3 packs of cigarettes over the course of a 24 hour period would be less than or equal to the total number of drags she inhaled in one pack of cigarettes if she smoked each and every cigarette all the way down.

I quit over 30 years ago and at the time I was smoking 3 to 4 packs a day, that's 60 to 80 cigarettes a day. I was a chain smoker, I used very few matches because I used my current butt to light my next cigarette often. My behavior was not that unusual because I knew others then who smoked just the same.

Not to mention how smoking affects the voiceraspy, women have lower voices, awful. I am an unsmoker, although lots in my family did and do. I once worked for a small newspaper. 6 people smoked in a tiny, windowless area. Within a short time, the smoke turned my contacts brown. My skin and clothes were always coated in the smoke film that went deep. Awful. My Dad, a 20-yr smoker, had a heart attack, 4-way bypass, and a major paralyzing strokecourtesy of smoking. Finally after 11-1/2 years, he died.

Back in the early 1980s I was in a computer-programming class and a female student asked me to help her with an assignment. When she sat next to me I was hit with an overwhelming stench of cigarettes. It was so bad that I had to pretty much hold my breath. No lie, the tobacco smell was so strong that I thought I was going to vomit. Literally, the moment she opened her mouth I thought I was going to puke right into her lap. We had to share the same computer (monochrome..this was before Windows), so we had to sit side-by-side. That smell stayed with me for hours.
Years later I went on a blind date with a girl who worked for one of our vendors. Wed speak on the phone each week, so I asked her on a date. We went to the movies, where she was very affectionate. Unfortunately.she was a smoker. It was a repeat of that previous girl. Shes kissing me on my face/neck/ears.and I kept getting this waft of hot tobacco breath. I found it very difficult (impossible) to reciprocate this girls affection, which was unfortunate. Aside from the very strong ashtray smell that wafted around her..she was a nice girl.
Im speechless as to how oblivious they both were to the awful odor that followed them around every day.
As fine as Amanda Blake looked.I can only imagine what it was like every time she exhaled..

My grandfather cut down from 6 packs a day to around 4 his last year. He only lived until he was 83. I enjoy telling that to docs who swear smokers never live past 40.

My old man smoked four to five packs a day. Just about every minute, except when he was asleep or in the shower. Of course, it killed him.

I only smoked cigarettes for about 1-1/ 2 years and I got up to 3 packs. That was back in the days when you could smoke in the office and other public places.
The Good Old Days - Pestilence, Famine and Plague!

Smoking is suicide, poisons everyone's air & jacks up medical costs for all of us. Everything is wrong with that. ?
Tobacco killed my Mom with emphysema, when she was relatively young. I miss her every day. She/we should have had another 20+ years together.
When my Mom was a young teen she became addicted to smoking. No one knew then that people were killing themselves. But the people smoking their brains out today, when they have all the facts, is shocking. Plus smokers continue to poison everyone's air & jack up medical costs for all.
It is sickening how tobacco industry can so callously still be selling Death.

I smoked for 26 years, quitting 19 years ago. Now, I only smoked 1-1 1/2 packs a day, but I have a couple of friends who smoke 3-4 packs a day!

I quit smoking almost
9 YEARS AGOS!!!
but, when I did smoke (which I started in nursing school of all places).. I did, at times, smoke up to 2 packsa day.. not hard at all.. takes less then 5 minutes to smoke a butt.. and most of the time.. you do not finish one.. even when I worked, I was able to do this.. and this was when smoking had started to become EVIL!
BUT REMEMBER when Amanda Blake SMOKED.. you could smoke ALMOST ANYWHERE!!! and I am SURE.. she could smoke almost ANYWHERE ON THE SETS.. and figure.. a ONE HOUR SHOW that took a WEEK TO FILM.. so REHEARSE REHEARSE, BLOCK SCENES. blah blah blah.. AND A LOT OF THOSE SCENES were OUTSIDE.. she had either her own trailer, dressing room and probably MOST OF THE CAST SMOKED!!!
My mother smoked that much and she had ORAL CANCER.. HORRID CANCER!! (drink alcohol is also attributed with ORAL CANCER) .. She had to have part of her tongue and allof her teeth removed, but, she still smoked for a while.. )

PS. Since then the count has gone DOWN In the fifties, almost 50% OF AMERICANS smoked. Now it's 18%. We are headed in the right direction. But people need people to hate and when the rate of smokers when down, so did the socially approved attacking and bullying anyone who smoked anywhere under the cover of caring about their health care. They miss that bullying and socially approved hating. So e cigs came out. And although they are perfectly safe and excrete water vapor, cities are outlawing them at a fast pace even when they are used for quitting smoking cigs which do harm yourself. I will say that I prefer to smoke as opposed to humiliating and controlling people's lives. Name one person you know who gave up smoking because some nasty old man came up to them and yelled at them for smoking.
I think I am taking all of this rather well.

Richard,
The best cigs are those smoked in the bathroom and After dinner. Four cigs an hour? I could do that easily and then add a few more cig's to that hour. No problem. Remember it's addictive, more than heroin and just as hard to quit. Oh, and one cig every fifteen minutes is NOT chain smoking at all. Five or Six cigs in 15 min is chain smoking. Don't get me wrong, I am not promoting it or defending it. Just stating the facts man.
I think I am taking all of this rather well.

Can happen easily. .that's how addic5b4tive smoking is

60 cigarettes a day????
Has the count increased since the 50s and 60s? That is unbelievable.
Allowing 8 hours for sleep, that's 16 hours! Now give yourself an hour to eat and go to the toilet, so that's easier math to do, 60 cigarettes in 15 hours comes to four cigarettes every hour?
A cigarette every fifteen minutes. Just non-stop.

Richard, You'd be surprised at how fast those three cigs can grow to three packs. I know, i was up that high and quit after a heart by pass operation. (five by passes). PS. 20 cigs to a pack.
Kevin
I think I am taking all of this rather well.