Passive Smoking Bad for Mental Health

Topnews.us ^ | Thu, 06/10/2010

[Publius6961]

That is so true. Florence King wrote an entire column about it some years ago, which has disappeared utterly from the present neurotic "politically correct" world; But a fragment has survived "

"This is probably wishful thinking in view of my family's medical history, but it points up another benefit of cigarettes we no longer hear about: consolation. Even the word is gone from the language now, but it was what came through in World War II newsreels showing weary soldiers and refugees lighting up. In their most despairing moments a cigarette was all they had, and increasingly I feel the same way."
Florence King

[Drango]

I am not a conservative

I'll bite. Losertarian?? Liberal perhaps? Anarchist? Constitutionalist? Peace and Freedom? Socialist?? Do tell????

[Niteranger68]

You whipped out that “it’s for the children” card real quick didn’t you? Typical liberal tactic. You picked the wrong group to lord over....

[fight_truth_decay]

And it’s mostly a liberal trait

Once it was cool to smoke, now it is not--no politics involved. Just a fashion of the times. Thinkers smoked and drank and shared revolutionary ideas. The long cigarette holders were considered sexy.

Now in Paris, at least a couple years ago, you would often still see a person on their bike smoking. That's when the partial bans appeared (and Americans were blamed) and said to be "the demise of a part of French culture."

The cafes are open air so when someone lights up you think you will smell it but you do not.

At Le Musée du Fumeur (The Museum of Smoking), there was concern the French would not be able to think creatively without cigarettes (and bottles of wine).

The retouched black and white photos of Che Guevara, Jacques Brel, Brigitte Bardot are said to now hold giant yellow buttercups instead of cigarettes between their lips.

[fight_truth_decay]

Correction % updated..not partial ban but full, I guess. Still cigars could be sold and smoked...I was there in '07 however and saw smokers in the Latin Quarter as said.