SMOKE - AND FIRED

Unfortunately if you smoke, you will not be around as long as you think. You better hurry up and post, your clock is ticking.

More tripe from the peanut gallery. Bet you didn't know that eight of the ten oldest people in the world were smokers, did ya? Lots of us stubborn old smokers will undoubtedly outlive you.

But with Bloominidiot pushing, I think the envelope for city employees just tore.

Pure unadulterated posturing.
Based on a lifetime of familiarity and observation of government employees (over 30 years), and 4 years within the belly of the beast, you would blanch at the abuses present, independent of the smoking issue.
My safe guess is that there are 10 times that number who are on the city payroll and never show up and actually work!.

Smoking, however, is the current trendy target of choice for the controllers, the hypochondriacs, the neurotic and the poor in spirit.

I AM glad that you at least don't deny licking dirty ashtrays so you can make a "valid" comparison. Yuck.

Just to set the record straight, I have never lickked a dirty ashtray. Cleaned up a few from messy guests before my parents finally had the nerve to make their house a "no-smoking" zone.

I'm not normally a vindictive "I told you so" type person - but I can't wait for this entire BBNB group to get bit on the butt - the attack on smokers is going to come back to haunt them when it shifts to something they enjoy - and I'm going to be loving every minute of it.

Well said, Gabz! Well said.

Nope. You won't.

What makes you so sure? Last time I looked, the time machine hadn't yet been invented.

I can, however, tell you that Max is better educated than you are and on that basis, regardless of whether or not he smokes, he will - on average - outlive you.

How do I know about your education? Well, it's one thing to mispell words in a post. It's an entirely different thing to mispell your FReeper name - "SUCKELS" should be "SUCKLES" and "USAS" should be "USA'S".

"You have an exchequer of words, and, I think, no other treasure to give your followers."

In a hurry to register? "Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast."

And, by the way, "TEAT" rather than "BREAST" would have given you room for the apostrophe.

PS. This medical evidence you speak of....where is it? Cite at least one study. There was "evidence" that smoking caused ulcers, until they discovered helicobacter pylori. There was "evidence" that smoking caused cervical cancer, until they discovered HPV.

As Max said, above, there is irrefutable evidence that 8 of the 10 oldest lived humans were smokers.

On the other hand Jim Fixx, widely regarded as the father of the modern jogging craze, dropped dead at 52.

There is medical evidence that smokers live far shorter lives on average than nonsmokers.

Tell that to the Japanese - male smokers' life expectancy: 76.5 years (2nd highest in the World); % of Japanese males who smoke: 59%. (By the way, this is not "medical" evidence, but "statistical" evidence.)

What is my point? Your supercilious certainty that I will die young and you will live to a ripe old age because you do not smoke is unproven, unfounded and untrue.

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