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Europeans cannot shake suicidal habit (cigarette smoking)
EU Observer ^
| 31.05.12 @ 09:16 (May 31)
| Andrew Rettman
Posted on 06/02/2012 10:41:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: ottbmare; Little Bill
If you smoke after sex, you should probably be using a personal lubricant.
To: Olog-hai
I just spent a couple of weeks in Paris, where I saw more beautiful women than I ever have in my life. They were all slimmer than the average American woman, but nearly all of them smoked.
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posted on
06/02/2012 12:13:25 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Sworn to Defend The Constitution Against ALL Enemies, Foreign and Domestic. So Help Me GOD!)
To: Mr. K
So the largest cash crop grown for centuries in the formerly solid democrat south is really a pet of the republican party? Really?
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posted on
06/02/2012 12:36:27 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(I like Obamacare because Granny signed the will and I need the cash)
To: Olog-hai
Nearly every European tween and teenager seems to smoke, especially from East Europe and Russia, and especially the girls.
I theorize that there exists a shadowy arm of the law that observes them, sort of like the old Stasi or KGB. When they have failed to observe a youngster smoking for a period of time, they take her off the street and stick her in a reeducation camp, where the kid is subjected to primitive but effective techniques of behavior modification.
She'll come out puffing, like her peers.
In a way, socialist societies depend on their smokers. Not just for confiscatory tax revenues from smokers when they are still earning, but also for their early demise from various cancers or heart disease, which eases the old-age pension burden on the welfare system.
[ One half of a ≤}B^) ]
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posted on
06/02/2012 12:37:16 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
(BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
To: Olog-hai
Europeans cannot shake suicidal habit (entitlement)
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posted on
06/02/2012 12:41:39 PM PDT
by
fanfan
(.http://www.ontariolandowners.ca/index.php?p=1_50_Your-Rights)
To: fanfan
At least their Victory Cigarettes are still produced by a relatively free market . . .
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posted on
06/02/2012 12:42:39 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Smoking versus obesity: it's a trade-off.
Either way, you won't get out of life alive.
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posted on
06/02/2012 12:43:11 PM PDT
by
x
To: Olog-hai
In this country the large majority of smokers are members of lower socio-economic classes...Obama’s people,mainly.During my last trip to Europe (about 4 years ago) I got the sense that it's far more widespread.
To: Erasmus
Funny. My kid's used to go to International School in Sweden which was around the corner from a French school. In the park acorss the street, all the teens hung out smoking like chimneys. I felt like I was back in 1970.
But, you know, those Euros, they are so much more sophisticated than us redneck Americans. We could learn a thing or two from them. Like smoking, walking around with flasks of gut rot liquor to drink through out the day and stopping to urinate on the sides of roads in random places. All favorite Euro pastimes.
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posted on
06/02/2012 12:49:07 PM PDT
by
riri
(Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
To: Olog-hai; a fool in paradise; JoeProBono; Daffynition; Slings and Arrows
There wouldn't be no Belmondo without cigarettes!
To: Beowulf9
Cool and intellectual, dude!
To: Revolting cat!
Heh. Blasphemy. Photoshop that tobacco out at once . . .
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posted on
06/02/2012 12:58:45 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
I am a guy, if it feels like sandpaper, you might need a gynecological exam or it is lust not love.
To: Little Bill
You obviously didnt put enough into it.I'm a lady, and it's taking all my strength to resist making the obvious retort. ;-)
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posted on
06/02/2012 1:08:43 PM PDT
by
ottbmare
(The OTTB Mare)
To: riri
But, you know, those Euros, they are so much more sophisticated than us redneck Americans. We could learn a thing or two from them. Like smoking, walking around with flasks of gut rot liquor to drink through out the day and stopping to urinate on the sides of roads in random places. All favorite Euro pastimes.
Why the bitterness?
They have similar stereotypes about us, that start with obesity and move on from there.
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posted on
06/02/2012 1:11:41 PM PDT
by
x
To: Olog-hai
Hey, remember the Robert Johnson stamp? Photoshop hadn't even been invented then!
To: Olog-hai
Maybe, but they can’t smoke them anywhere.
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posted on
06/02/2012 1:32:00 PM PDT
by
fanfan
(.http://www.ontariolandowners.ca/index.php?p=1_50_Your-Rights)
To: Thumper1960
I would think smoking in the modern US would rather repel than attract most young American women—and thus diminish one’s chances of indulging in consensual, non-transactional sex.
To: Revolting cat!
This could be the start of a beautiful friendship...
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posted on
06/02/2012 2:57:18 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: x
Why the bitterness? Um, exactly because they think they are superior to us and having lived among them several times I know what folly and self delusion that truly is.
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posted on
06/02/2012 3:01:04 PM PDT
by
riri
(Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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