Ditka: Smoke won't hurt you

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | January 10, 2003 | FRAN SPIELMAN

[cubreporter]

Maybe so.

[Deadeye Division]

http://www.mikeditkaschicago.com/

[Mears]

As a long time smoker when I die it will be called a "smoking related death'. If I didn't smoke would it be called "a non smoking related death"?

[Hildy]

Yea, and I might walk outside right now and get hit by a car. So what?

[tiki]

Of course not!!!! All deaths are smoking related in some way or another. If no one on the planet smoked we'd all live forever.........right?

[Max McGarrity]

Some psychiatrists have theorized that some of those who "smoke" are subconsciously substituting that cigarette or cigar orally for "something else."

And many psychiatrists state unequivocally that one's need to control others may stem from premature potty training. The term is "anal retentive." If the shoe fits...

[Great Dane]

So... since you've been "poisoned" by smokers, perhaps you'll offer up a few examples of what this "poison" has done.

Ain't it amazing this man is still alive.

BY the way, Tacis has become just another hit and run poster. :-}

[Great Dane]

#47......... WOW, beautiful place.

[F16Fighter]

"And that guy who was crossing the street and got hit by a Mack truck would have lived longer if he hadn't crossed the street."

Oh we're going there are we??

Ok, I'll play...If only Yosemite Sam hadn't stuck his head into that canon hatch...

[F16Fighter]

"Yea, and I might walk outside right now and get hit by a car. So what?"

Not if you two hold hands and look both ways before prancing across the Turnpike together clutching your half-smoked Marlboro Lights.

[Hildy]

What are you talking about? When did I say I smoked? And who is this person I'd be holding hands with? Now I'm intrigued :)

[F16Fighter]

"Many psychiatrists state unequivocally that one's need to control others may stem from premature potty training. The term is 'anal retentive.' If the shoe fits..."

Hey Maxy -- purse your lips...insert oral-fixated "object" (remind yourself it's only a cigarette)...and inhale...

[Max McGarrity]

Hey, anal-retentive pseudo-man, what business is it of yours what the hell I do?

[F16Fighter]

See post #55.

You have a kindred spirit.

[F16Fighter]

"What business is it of yours what the hell I do?"

Good point. It's no prblem of mine whatever you choose to do in the privacy of your own home.

So what?

[laredo44]

he does not have the right to take my freedom

Enlighten us please. What pray tell is your definition of freedom? Exactly how is Ditka limiting your freedom?

[JimVT]

Either of you folks live near anyone who heats their home with wood?

[laredo44]

Ditka is wrong.

How so?

[CDHart]

"There's more to the smoking/health equation than one person's anecdotal evidence."

Amen to that! I smoked for 35 years, got lung cancer in 1998, and was given less than a year to live. Thanks to God, good doctors and a special diet, I'm still here and cancer-free. But even if the cancer doesn't get you, smoking anything usually results in some form of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). If you like inhalers four times a day and oxygen at night and the inability to walk up a slight grade without huffing, just keep smoking -- first or secondhand.

Carolyn