Post by Blunashun on Sept 3, 2019 20:31:00 GMT
Okay. Not saying I'm in favor of smoking. At what point do we realize we're getting played though?
I had two brothers. I was the youngest. At various points in my life we would be going out, with me sitting in the middle of four smokers. The windows would be rolled up so the air-conditioning could kick in. I smoked a few of Dad's non-filter cigarettes, but never developed a taste for tobacco. Ironically Mom & Dad confronted me when I was 20 for smoking pot.
"What's this?"
"A roach."
"No it isn't! It's weed!"
"That's what you call the snub end of a joint."
"Then you admit to smoking dope?"
"It's not like Jack Webb says on Dragnet. I've never been tempted to do anything else." (I didn't mention an acid trip or one time on meth & dust.).
Mom & Dad sort of trusted my judgement & let it go at that. Mom confided one of her co-workers smokes a joint after every shift.
So first the anti-smokers told us smokers were poisoning themselves. That didn't get them to quit so they rationalized secondhand smoke being worse than firsthand smoke. That stretched credulity a bit. You mean those smokers are getting both firsthand & secondhand smoke & we're the worse for wear? How long is a cigarette anyway? If we corral all the smokers into one herd, aren't they getting the secondhand smoke of all the other lepers?
So now people vape. They have commercials where it's labeled "brain poison." Where were these do-gooders when I was eating coffee? I actually ATE coffee. We had a spice rack & goddam that coffee was good. I was drinking about 8 cups of coffee a day by age 10, & lord only knows how much more I was eating. I would wake up with blinding headaches. Why do we see no commercials about the evils of caffeine in cappuccinos & sodas? Energy drinks & coffee? Weight loss formulas? I later developed an allergy to caffeine (thank God) & would like to see warning labels.
Every politician needs a cause. Very few are sincere.
I had two brothers. I was the youngest. At various points in my life we would be going out, with me sitting in the middle of four smokers. The windows would be rolled up so the air-conditioning could kick in. I smoked a few of Dad's non-filter cigarettes, but never developed a taste for tobacco. Ironically Mom & Dad confronted me when I was 20 for smoking pot.
"What's this?"
"A roach."
"No it isn't! It's weed!"
"That's what you call the snub end of a joint."
"Then you admit to smoking dope?"
"It's not like Jack Webb says on Dragnet. I've never been tempted to do anything else." (I didn't mention an acid trip or one time on meth & dust.).
Mom & Dad sort of trusted my judgement & let it go at that. Mom confided one of her co-workers smokes a joint after every shift.
So first the anti-smokers told us smokers were poisoning themselves. That didn't get them to quit so they rationalized secondhand smoke being worse than firsthand smoke. That stretched credulity a bit. You mean those smokers are getting both firsthand & secondhand smoke & we're the worse for wear? How long is a cigarette anyway? If we corral all the smokers into one herd, aren't they getting the secondhand smoke of all the other lepers?
So now people vape. They have commercials where it's labeled "brain poison." Where were these do-gooders when I was eating coffee? I actually ATE coffee. We had a spice rack & goddam that coffee was good. I was drinking about 8 cups of coffee a day by age 10, & lord only knows how much more I was eating. I would wake up with blinding headaches. Why do we see no commercials about the evils of caffeine in cappuccinos & sodas? Energy drinks & coffee? Weight loss formulas? I later developed an allergy to caffeine (thank God) & would like to see warning labels.
Every politician needs a cause. Very few are sincere.