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Akiyama was not a trained astronaut, scientist nor engineer. During his time aboard Mir, Akiyama gave live reports each day documenting life aboard the station, but his apparent discomfort led to him being described as the first "antihero in space". He described his struggles such as space sickness and craving for cigarettes:During training, he quit smoking cigarettes, having previously smoked four packs a day. Before liftoff, when asked what he looked forward to most upon his return to Earth, he said "I can't wait to have a smoke". His fellow cosmonauts later reported, in regards to his nausea, that they "hadn't ever seen a man vomit that much."
Why has nobody made an anime about this guy???
This lady I worked with taught herself circular breathing so she could smoke an entire cigarette in one long inhale. The breaks were really short.
She didn't know it was called circular breathing, or that you could use it to sing or play an instrument.. Just figured it out naturally by being a dedicated smoker.
As to Mr. Akiyama's 4 pack per day, do we know for sure how many were in a pack?
That has to be the most stressed women in existence
she had her problems but had a naturally sunny disposition and was obviously pretty good at solving problems
Google just said 20 in a pack is standard to Japan, but I'm not sure about cigarettes in the 1980s.