Posted on 12/10/2004 3:23:49 PM PST by LouAvul
SKOKIE, ILL. — Radio host Mike North (search) took his show on the road for what he believed was a good cause: Collecting cigarettes for soldiers overseas.
North urged his listeners in Skokie, Ill., to donate cigarettes to be sent to the troops. He called the campaign “Smokes for Soldiers” (search) and said he got the idea from the picture of James Miller (search), the 20-year-old Marine in combat in Iraq photographed with a lit cigarette dangling from his mouth.
“His picture was plastered all over the newspapers and I started reading … and he says, ‘I’m just doing what’s supposed to be done, but guess what? There’s a shortage of cigarettes out here,’” North said.
The American Lung Association (search) opposes the “Smokes for Soldiers” drive, saying troops should be sent care packages that don’t kill, and distributed a memo from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (search) in which he advised that tobacco should be avoided because it impacts troop readiness.
“Tobacco use presents an immediate and real danger for our soldiers who are on the lines today,” said Joel Africk of the American Lung Association. More than 400,000 Americans die each year from smoking-related illnesses.
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I was stationed in Europe (NATO Italy) for two years. It's amazing what a few packs of Marlboros , A Zippo lighter or
Butterball turkeys will bring as reward.
Ok!! :)
I'm fine, Miss Lion, and hope you are too. It struck me immediately as the usual whiny PC nonsense from the holier-than-thou types.
Well, they are a bunch of highly paid professional anti-smokers. And a bunch of pansy arzed wimps. Why don't they go after something that is illegal for a change?
I'm starting to think real hard about doing that. I can't smoke 'em myself right now, so I may as well live vicariously through them, LOL!
Good on ya.
I would be very quick to get out of the way, too! LOL
During WWII, my Daddy was on the front lines. He smoked
and drank whatever he could get hold of to smoke or drink.
He quit after he got out of that high stress (to put it
mildly) situation. Meantime, facing death a lot of the
time, he didn't fear riding German motorcycles with the
lights out down mountain roads, smoking and drinking cognac.
What you wrote reminded me of something. I'm reading a selection of George Orwell essays. In one of them he refers to what would be today's typical Democrats as "the pansy-left".
Yes, they are fighting for their lives, but more importantly, they are fighting for OUR lives.
These anti's are insane.
No kidding. At least the antis we get here on FR are, generally, willing to discuss things civilally - you should see how they behave on other boards. Granted, they are usually all bark and no bite, but they are still vicious, nasty people.
I know they are all bark and no bite because they have all been claiming that CPS is going to show up and take my child away from me...........guess what? My daughter is playing in her bedroom right now!
Good for you!!!!!!!!
That he saw it coming is scary, very scary.
Yeah, I know, but they can chew the nicotine gum and fire their weapons at the same time. Well, maybe not if you're "Gerald Ford prone", LOL. Plus, no smoke in your eyes from the gum.
The gum gives you the same rush initially. Just keep spitting them out and popping new ones.
The other thing that occurred to me was that the light signature of a burning cigarette makes a perfect head shot target at night.
Smoke in camp, chew gum on patrol, works for me.
They could call it "Combat Gum".
However, enough of me leading you astray, I gotta catch a bus in the pouring rain. See you later, Miss Lion!
Alright already, so send them armored cigarettes ;-)
Smoke'em if you care to men...good grief.
Lord only knows how he would of ended up if he finished high school and went to college : )
I can tell his liberal colleague is going to have to change or quit. She is so embarrassingly silly.
Right from my brain to your keyboard.
Next, the LIBS will want to take away their guns!
Some guys aren't made for college. North served, as I recall, as an MP in Korea.
Night, Argh.
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