At Least We Still Have Cheap Cigarettes

[Justin Spencer]

NEVER!

She usually lit up right after Whitey's dad left. Cold hard truth!

[Chief Grey Bear]

Andy Taylor smoked.

[Wayne SW/MO]

It's too bad that mankind's health problems don't come from smoking, but that would be too easy.

I do differ on the reason doctors run so many test however. I think it's due to the fact there is a lawyer advertising on TV that if he didn't you should sue.

[Outside Bend]

It's too bad that mankind's health problems don't come from smoking, but that would be too easy.

Are you saying smoking does or does not contribute to health problems?

[Wayne SW/MO]

Are you saying smoking does or does not contribute to health problems?

I'm saying if it was the only one then it would be easy to make mankind healthy. Smoking isn't the only cause of lung cancer and heart problems.

[Outside Bend]

True- not all lung cancer/heart problems are attributable to smoking- just as not all cases of VD are attributed to intercourse. It doesn't mean you quit wearing condoms. Fact is smoking contributes significantly to both of those ailments, and it's entirely preventable.

[ness]

Just know this, smokers: You're killing yourselves, and it's costing others in ways you're probably not considering. A life well-lived? It's hard to buy off on that logic. If you spend the last 20% of that life tethered to an oxygen bottle and drag down all the folks who depend on you -- either by costing the family a crapload of money, or sucking them into caring for your feeble, tar-stained-finger-azz, well -- your habit affects others. It blows my mind that some are advocating for smoking -- or the right to smoke. If you're holed up, living the life of a hermit in your little cabin, well -- ok. If you're not -- well, think about the rest.

I've seen enough heart disease, cancer, emphysema, whatever -- and the effects it has on the rest of the family -- to know it's freakin' selfishness to lay that on others. Quit now, you self-centered pussies!

[jdmidwest]

Just know this, smokers: You're killing yourselves, and it's costing others in ways you're probably not considering. A life well-lived? It's hard to buy off on that logic. If you spend the last 20% of that life tethered to an oxygen bottle and drag down all the folks who depend on you -- either by costing the family a crapload of money, or sucking them into caring for your feeble, tar-stained-finger-azz, well -- your habit affects others. It blows my mind that some are advocating for smoking -- or the right to smoke. If you're holed up, living the life of a hermit in your little cabin, well -- ok. If you're not -- well, think about the rest.

I've seen enough heart disease, cancer, emphysema, whatever -- and the effects it has on the rest of the family -- to know it's freakin' selfishness to lay that on others. Quit now, you self-centered pussies!

Well put Ness, second hand smoke sucks.

I have often wanted to take a bat and point out the effects of second hand smoke on an allergic non smoker that has had too much. Once on the head to relate the headache that it causes. Once in the nasal cavity to let them know how it feels to breath thru clogged sinuses. Smack them twice in the ears to simulate the clogged eustachion tubes that cause ringing ears and clogged hearing. Smack them twice in the chest to let them know what restricted breathing is. Jab them in the throat to make it hurt too.

[Chief Grey Bear]

You CCW zealots are an awful violent bunch.

[Mitch f]

You CCW zealots are an awful violent bunch.

You should have seen what he did to the Boy Scout who put a leaflet on his truck!