Posted on 01/27/2014 11:30:22 AM PST by Beave Meister
Edited on 01/27/2014 11:37:03 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
As an ex-smoker I remember a cigarette and coffee, a cigarette and a beer and a cigarette after sex.
Hey if you can afford it, more power to ya!
“Tobacco grown for ones own use isn’t taxed.”
Yet
I liked him, but never liked Marlboros.
Yes..it is an aweful way to die slowly and if it were not for medical intervention of oxygen, it would be a much quicker death by not breathing slow slow drowning type of death.
It is getting expensive, no doubt about that!!
“Tobacco grown for ones own use isn’t taxed. “
I knew a guy in college whose dad had been growing his own tobacco since the ‘70’s. He thought it was too pricy at .50/pack. Apparently, it’s not difficult.
72 years old. Nothing tragic about that. Maybe he would have lived a few years longer if he didn’t smoke but it can’t be said he didn’t have a full life.
“Can’t think of many benefits of smoking.....”
Staying awake on sentry duty comes to mind.
It is calming. Would you be one of the folks that wanted them out of rations during WWII?
79 here in Japan for men - 86 for women .
My grandfather enjoyed his Scotch. Not to excess, he just liked a scotch or two in the evening.
Many, many years ago, his doc told him to quit drinking. Grandpa's response? He fired the doc, on the spot. "What did he think it would do, stunt my growth?", he said, approximately.
Grandpa lived to the ripe old age of 87, and enjoyed his scotch more-or-less right up to the end. :-)
If you make it to 72, your actuarial life expectancy is somewhere in the mid 80’s.
Besides that COPD is a horrible way to go, in some ways as bad as going with cancer.
What, no cigarette after a good meal?!
No wonder he never quit!
How about the ingestion of nicotine, an extraordinarily potent and beneficial anti-viral chemical?
Could the threatening of the multi-gajillion dollar medical industry have absolutely anything to do with the demonization of tobacco? Let alone the stimulating and calming effect on people that politicians want to be stupified and anxious? Let alone the fact that there are literally hundreds of chemicals, a great many of them carcinogenic, in tobacco additives and tobacco paper which are completely uninvestigated because those additives are considered "trade secrets"?
It's not the tobacco and it's not the nicotine that kills you. They keep you awake, calm and free from many viruses and other nasty bugs.
It's the additives.
Watch out for hydrogen hydroxide too. It’ll get you.
No, not many benefits of smoking.
But the coverage of THIS death, i.e., it’s plastered all over Facebook, is ‘aha!” He smoked, he promoted smoking, he deserved to die. 72 is not an unusually young age to die.
Would the same finger-wagers DARE to have a similar reaction to a gay who died of AIDS? Most AIDS deaths are considerably younger than 72 and are also the result of bad behavioral choices.
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