Posted on 09/07/2012 11:58:21 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Now, they expend those brain cells trying to figure out where the morons in charge of the universe might "let" them do that.
Yeah, we pretty much only had white kids too, but the cool ones weren’t the ones smoking.
“Well yeah, but that doesn’t go over well on the smoking threads. Pointing out the fact that smoking is highly negatively correlated with education (and income) only gets you insulted by certain zealots. “
That’s because they assume that if you think something is stupid therefore you are for banning it or taxing it into oblivion.
I think nyan cat and most of what’s on the internet is pretty stupid but that doesn’t mean I want the government to ban it.
Great post! Thanks for your continued thoughtful inputs to FR.
“I was just talking to my daughter about this yesterday, a square with trees and ashtrays between the gym and cafeteria. It is unbelievable that they had a smoking area for minors.”
Had the same thing at my high school, in the 70s, what was up with that? Smoking being illegal for those under 18.
In his case he is for banning it and taxing it into oblivion. How he has survived on FR is still a mystery to many of us.
I wouldn’t be surprised if public schools had designated scr*ing areas for minors.
No, this unbelievable hysteria is a fairly recent phenomenon.
Huckleberry Finn smoked a corncob pipe and I was able to smoke in the hallways of the schools and everywhere else outside the classrooms when I was in Jr. High and High School. In College, we were allowed to smoke INSIDE the classrooms.
For those of you thinking I am a fossil; this was the late '60's and early '70's.
My wife, myself, the obstetrician and the attending nurse all smoked in the delivery room when my kids were born in 1982 and 1984.
Control freaks with nothing else to do recently changed all of that for no good reason.
Yep. It was true 30 years ago when I started smoking as a teenager and it seems to be true today.
On a related note, give me some time and I'll bet I could find a paparazzi photo of every single pop/movie star that is famous with kids today puffing on a cigarette (with the possible exception of Taylor Swift).
Maybe in the 2nd Obama term they can revert things back.
“Kids today are trying to be ‘cool’. What they would call ‘groovy’ in their psychedelic lingo. When they and their ‘hip’ friends go to an Occupy protest, they spend their time sipping lattes, eating croissants and talking about their newfangled ‘video games’. They aren’t tough. They don’t know what tough is.
“Back in my day in the riots of the 1960’s, we knew what tough was. And during out protests, all we had to eat was the cold stench of mild discomfort, washed down with restroom sink water!”
When I first moved up to Nevada for school, cloves were all the rage (and this is college kids not high school kids). It seemed every single kid in the state smoked them. It was not legal to sell them in Nevada. So the cool thing to do was to drive to California and stock up on them.
Not so long afterward, cloves were made legal to sell in the state of Nevada, and almost overnight kids stopped smoking them.
Any lesson there?
That is exactly what Drango wants. He has stated it a hundred times or more.
“Smoking being illegal for those under 18.”
Technically, and I think I can be wrong on this, I do not believe it is illegal for minors to smoke. I believe it is simply illegal to sell, or otherwise give tobacco to them.
Smoking area in my high school as well.
It has only been in the last 15 years or so that smoking became an activity restricted only to adults. Prior to that, anyone could smoke --much like anyone of any age today today can drink caffeine. As a fourth-grader, my mom used to give me a couple of bucks and send my on my bike to the grocery store to buy her two packs of Now 100s. Nobody batted an eye. There were plenty of 13-14 year old "freaks" as we called them in Junior High smoking at the bus stop. It was perfectly legal (and many of these "freaks" are engineers now).
Believe it or not, there was a time when 18-year old high school seniors could legally drink beer.
Now we've raised the smoking age to 18, the drinking age to 21 and the age of full independence to 26. And we wonder why we have full-grown men and women behaving like adolescents?
45 years ago maybe. LOL
I was thinking of the hilarious “blue boy” scene from Dragnet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0zgIzqgxFU
C'mon daddy-o! Today's cats are hip to what's swell!
Thanks Laz, well said and worth repeating...
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