Posted on 02/09/2007 7:27:49 AM PST by Leisler
My great grandfather smoked, dipped, ate bacon and eggs every day, made and drank his own wine and lived to the ripe age of 102. He was active and healthy until his death.(Drunk driver ran off the road, into my great grandfather's yard striking him as he basked in his hammock.)
Sounds like my grandparents and an aunt, my mother's older sister. They drank and smoked and ate all the things that are supposedly bad for us today. They all died in their middle to late eighties.
My mother lived a healthy life of exercise and no smoking or booze. She died at eighty-eight.
I think genetics has much more to do with such things than other factors.
My parents were chain smokers. My father was all unfiltered Camels and my mothers liked to switch around with all the menthols. At night since he couldn't smoke while asleep my father would go to bed with a pinch of Copenhagen in his cheek. I myself have never smoked. But I hate what they are doing to smokers around me. People now have to leave their buildings and walk to some ugly spot to smoke. I hear mean remarks. Yesterday I was in a newsstand and the owner was scolding the manager for having the cigarettes too prominently displayed. I don't want anyone to get sick and have cancer. I'm just ranting off the top of my head here. I hate what we are doing to smokers. I don't like the smoke either but I find my tolerance of it greatly depends upon the attitude of the smoker. Some are rude and some are polite. I don't like smokers feeling like freaks. I've been in situations where I couldn't even hold a conversation because the smoker kept backing away from me like we were two repelling magnets. This because they are so afraid of offending with a cigarette. Sheesh.
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Carolyn
Us extra fluffy people appreciate that.
I was one myself, a little more than extra fluffy, actually.
"Anyways, I suppose with the successful war on smokers, next is going to be the chubbys and those that cant walk half a mile. Someday in order to get FedGov sheeple health care, youll have to prove you can meet age physical fitness standards."
Well, you nailed it. I have nothing to add. (And that rarely happens, LOL!)
"My Austrian grandfather smoked unfiltered Camels and ate bacon and eggs for breakfast, meat and potatoes for dinner, lived until he was 94 and died a painless death with a sound mind."
My Austrian Grandpa lived that way and made it to 89. My Norwegian Grandpa lived that way and made it to 91...and had three wives...who all died before him.
As usual, this is more pandering for dollars and more intrusion into our lives by Mother Government.
Yes, Virginia. There ARE Two Americas. The Left one and the Right one. :)
I agree completely. Most people consume more calories than they burn; most people are fat; the government should stay out of it; nothing the government will do would work anyway.
I believe in moderation in all things; especially moderation.
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