Posted on 03/09/2012 8:32:31 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Same here. Of course we know that most air is pristine —like something you would breathe standing on a mountain top — except in places where guys like you and I are sitting around having a pipe.
The only people I ever see smoking anymore are kids. At the price of a pack of cigarettes They are the only ones that can afford to smoke.
I quit smoking four years ago, but I plan to start smoking again on May 25, 2047. The day I turn Eighty. Boy I can’t wait I could really use a smoke.
Marijuana use and teen pregnancy, on the other hand, are perfectly all right to the generation of ageing hippies who make up a substantial fraction of the current adult population.
My grand father died in his mid 80s, he had quit smoking many years prior. Lying in his hospital room dying, with my dad and me present, he asked me for a cigarette, you could smoke in hospitals back then. I looked at my dad and he just nodded his head yes. I gave my gramps a cigarette, even lit it for him. Then I went out and bought him a couple packs of his preferred brand. He died a couple of days later.
They shed crocodile tears and yammer on about health while scheming of new ways to use an issue to rake in more money.
And it is not just tobacco - they pervert any issue at all to gain power and money.
Thanks for the ping!
“Not all smokers get or have lung issues.”
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I’ve posted this before. I’m 79 and have been smoking since I was 17. I’m in as good shape as most women my age.
I smoked during my 5 pregnancies. My husband also smoked. I raised 5 healthy non-smokers.
This insanity stopped being about health years ago. It is about control on some fronts and revenue on others.
They worry more about young people smoking than young people “hooking up” with multiple partners. No revenue in that,I guess.
I wonder how profitable selling condoms to 30 year old law students could be.................... I guess it all depends on how bad they want them I suppose.
Of course more work is necessary. That is what government drones do, they continue to be addicted to increasing their feifdoms in the interest of controlling others. How else do they increase their pay?
That many FReepers applaud such activity is very sad.
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