Imagine smoking didn't exist. If I found the first tobacco plant, and went to the government to get permission to sell this toxic, highly addictive and often lethal substance to the public, how far do you think I'd get?
I also read she wasn't a smoker. Don't know if that meant currently, or was previously. In any event in regards to tobacco, remember, we have a huge, cultural, financial history with tobacco dating back further than George Washington's own crops. A huge part of the South was employed by it. The problem is once we found out it was addictive, the tobacco industry appears to tried to have hid it. Now we have huge health care costs to deal with an addictive product that the government should have dealt with earlier. Health insurance is skyrocketing, smoking is apart of it. I honestly cannot believe we allow smoking today? What benefit is it? Can you imagine Martians landing on earth and spying on a bunch of employees with white sticks out of their mouth:
Martian Boss: Okay Zot, report your findings.
Zot: Well, it seems they stand around outside together in a semi-circle with the white sticks lit with fire.
Boss: Rationale?
Zot: Unknown. It does not appear to be some subversive insurrection in the planning. Small talk is made. Once the white stick shortens from the fire. It is thrown on the ground.
Boss: So we have no fears of a post-attack reprisal?
Zot: Actually, if we wait a few decades, more deaths from the sticks will occur, and lower the adult population.
Boss: Agreed. Anything else.
Zot: Two things, one, strangely, numerous people with sticks stand outside medical facilities, and two, when are we going to let Elvis go back?
I'd just like to publicly thank you,along with Mia t, (who is notoriously famous for 50-foot ranting incoherent responses in threads), and the other rabid haters & morons here, for utterly destroying a thread originally devoted to a beautiful woman who died at an early age regardless of her politics. Thank you all.