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http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tobacco-enema-blow-smoke/(permalink)

Author: snopescom

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2021-02-18

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The phrase "blow smoke up your ass" comes from a pre-modern medical practice in which tobacco smoke is literally blown up a patient's ass.

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