Welcome Friends, foes and associates to the completely remodeled Free Republic...
Smoker's Lounge
Posted on 04/09/2004 12:17:50 PM PDT by Just another Joe
Welcome Friends, foes and associates to the completely remodeled Free Republic...
Smoker's Lounge
Here you will find a comfy place to smoke, drink, joke or whatever. We always have a great time, so sit back, relax and...
Does Smoking have Any Health Benefits?
Ireland, inhale for freedom
Trouble brews in Ireland over smoking ban Sweeping new law called unenforceable
Back tax asked on cigarette
Revenues up 9% in New York Bars
Fake Cigars Get Rolled in Cuba Case (Cohiba)
Pub smokers fume as Irish ban begins
California Cities Ban Smoking at the Beach
Girl Banned From Prom For Smoking Away From School
Smoking's giving drinking a bad name
Surgeon General Calls on Americans to Face Facts About Drinking
Habits: A Smoke Much Sweeter
Governor signs smoking ban, 17 other bills(Idaho Smokers Alert!)
Living with smokers ups death risk: study This one didn't get much exposure. Take a look.
Smoked out
Some money managers find value in booze, smokes, gambling and war
Cigarette taxes in N.J. sending smokers to Delaware (going up to $2.50 verus 55 cents in DE)
Cigarette Tax Increase Will Force Layoffs, Close Stores and Increase Crime
11 Charged In Cigarette-Smuggling Ring
Free Republic Smokers' Lounge theme song
Click on "I love this bar"
Ahhhhhhh.....
Why? What's it gonna do? :)
I'm not the only thing smoking around here....heeeheee...
You never know WHAT it might do while you're asleep.
Maybe invest in a video camera?
The VisionStanding on a balcony,
The vision entered like the night,
My followers were there with candles,
Faces lit with flickering light.“An image came to me this day,
And I am here with my decision!”
A spokesman strode forth, arms upraised.
“Tell the vision. Tell the vision.”I looked down into their hearts.
They sought wisdom, not advice.
Voices of their need called clearly,
I didn’t have to hear it twice.I have seen our future living,
In a stolen moment’s act.
People stood and looked around them,
Arriving at a startling fact.Spirits of tobacco leaf rise upward,
From a small inferno’s light.
A glimpse of Heaven and of Hell,
Packaged in a cylinder of white.A slim and tidy package,
Product of the adman’s age.
Why do we listen to the shriekers,
And ignore the noble sage?Some there are who say it’s evil,
Temptation prodding us to take,
A draught of something bound for Heaven,
And putting health itself at stake.Think about the plant that’s growing,
Reaching down into the soil,
Finding bits to bring inside it,
Climbing by its act of toil.Could it be that is our future?
Writhing in torment and hurt,
Trying thus to reach our heaven,
From this Hellish ball of dirt?Every plant goes through this process,
Only this is sacrifice.
Who is worshipping a Heaven,
And who is giving bad advice?Things that once seemed natural,
Have been given a revision.
Then the people murmur softly,
“Tell the vision. Tell the vision.”We used to walk a path between,
The sunshine and the soil.
Part of nature’s world of plenty,
Nourished in our land of toil.Something now has come to change us,
Make us just automatons.
Thinking that the only knowledge,
Is to know the goings-ons.Why should we all be just alike,
Each and every one the same?
Who or what has done this to us?
Can anybody name the name?The crowd then stood and milled about,
Understandings in collision,
But for one clear plaintive calling,
“Tell the vision. Tell the vision.”NicknamedBob . . . . . April 4, 2004
Gabz, it's time. You know how they start to get after a while. They won't come in until they know we are dancing. ;-)
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