[Cultural Jihad]

... based upon their use of legal products while not on company time.

Alas, if only the effects of smoking where to be gone the very next day when one has to do a foot chase for seven blocks to subdue a felon.

[Gabz]

Gee, when I was growing up most of the cops I knew were smokers, including my dad, and they never seemed to have any problem doing their jobs. In fact many of the guys I grew up with who became cops are still smokers and always performed their jobs with out problem.

I've got no idea what they've put in the water to make such wimps out of people.

My 8 month old lab got loose the other night and I spent better than 45 minutes chasing her over more than 2 acres of ground and wasn't even winded when she finally decided she had enough of the game. I'm in my 40s and have smoked for more than 20 years.