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Comment by skhr0680 | Hacker News Reader

There’s a great photo from the 70s of a football player resting during the super bowl halftime, enjoying a smoke and a beer

Here's a picture of the Italian sprinter Cipollini smoking a cigarette during a Tour de France stage in 95.

While cycling! I would think the wind probably smoked most of the cigarette for him

Likewise, here's Johan Cruyff, arguably the greatest soccer football player of his time, smoking at half time of the 74 world cup final.

This is actually Reinout Scholten van Aschat, a Dutch actor who played Cruyff in a TV series

Thank you! I did wonder why it was such a good quality image from the 70s. He was a famous smoker though of course.

More recently, Dimitar Berbatov was a known regular smoker. Also Jack Grealish but I think that's just when he's out drinking.

And that’s decades before the publication of “Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training” (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001541/) ;-)

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Len Dawson of the Kansas City Chiefs. He just passed away last week.