[BXLE_1-1-BitIs1]

Back in the 50's tonsillectomies were a regular rite of passage for kids, especially in colder places where kids spent more time indoors exposed to smoke. A couple years after moving from Maiibu to Toronto, I had the surgery.

[Broken_Hippo]

That wasn't because of smoke, though. It was common, in part, because antibiotics weren't nearly as good and in part because medicine wasn't so advanced. Turns out, it's good to keep tonsils in even if they get infected from time to time.

https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/tonsillectomies-stil...