Think this man was a smoker?

@cherokeepatti no, it was a natural gas forced air system. He lived alone and was a very heavy smoker.

@jetpack Very heavy smoker. I bet you could spray that telephone with glass cleaner and brownish yellow crud would drip off of it.

@cherokeepatti it is a rotory phone. I picked it up and it had a dial tone. It could only receive calls. Yes, it was sticky.