[Melas]

It may take a massive civil uprising, along with the accompanying hardship to get people back to relishing campfires, red meat and tobacco, along with all the other politically-incorrect "bad" habits which made our forebears surprisingly healthy and able to create and provide for us.

Tobacco is numbered amongst the things that made our forebears suprisingly healthy? Please, that's pure idiocy. That level of intelligence isn't even worthy of DU, let alone Free Republic, so I have no idea where to tell you to go. That's just stupid man.

[elkfersupper]

Tobacco is numbered amongst the things that made our forebears suprisingly healthy? Please, that's pure idiocy.

They also produced and drank booze, and wrangled large four-footed creatures for work and transportation.

Rumor has it, they danced and laughed occasionally also.