Before smoking was banned in the baseball stadium (outdoors, unlike Phoenix), I noticed that smokers would hold their cigarettes so that the smoke off the hot end never blew into _their_ faces.
Before smoking was banned in the baseball stadium (outdoors, unlike Phoenix), I noticed that smokers would hold their cigarettes so that the smoke off the hot end never blew into _their_ faces.
"Outdoors" and "public places" aren't necessarily the same.
...Jim Thompson
Byeeee! Have a nice trip! Send us a postcard of the particular piece of bleak scorched wasteland you settle on!
What I don't like in my face is smoke, and what I don't like everywhere else is cigarette butts. What I really don't like is people I love dying of lung cancer... three so far.
John
Right. Your own back yard is a private outdoor place.
John
[snip]
Don't come here... go somewhere else... it'll be 105°F today :-(
I don't like smoke in my face either. But I like government in my face even less.
Understandably! Probably the source of my son's colon cancer. But no one made him smoke.
...Jim Thompson
They're predicting a high of 59 here today. Last month we spent $120 on natural gas, mostly for heating. We don't have a/c. Opposite extreme!
The cig companies bred high-nicotine tobacco, chemically enhance its addictiveness, and specifically advertized it to kids to get them addicted. They made him smoke.
John
And none of them seem to see just how insane that is.
I think it's wrong to use government (i.e., your) money to promote what's demonstrably a religion.
Thanks, Rich
So, when the war on smokers gets as intense as the war on drugs, so only back-alley low-lifes like me can get cigarettes, and people still get cancer, THEN will they admit that they're wrong and smoking _doesn't_ "cause cancer"?
Probably not. Sigh.
Thanks, Rich
I heard something profound the other day: "You are what you hate."
Cheers! Rich
[snip]
I was perpetually after him to quit. But he wouldn't.
But his older brother has now quit.
...Jim Thompson
In fact smokers seem quite happy to blow their smoke into other ppls' faces.
Graham
Cigarette companies have the same problem that deodorant and soap companies have. Once you settle on a brand of that kind of product you like, you usually stick with it for life. So, they have to promote it to people who are just starting to buy such a product for themselves.
Of course soap and deodorant don't generally kill people, and they tend to smell relatively pleasant to others, but the business issue is the same.
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
Please demonstrate.
And I think you have your head up your arse about this.
Graham
Smoking may not cause cancer if you're lucky.
You might as well say crossing the road without looking doesn't kill you either.
Graham
Aluminum chlorhydrate has been linked to Alzheimers.
...Jim Thompson
Yep... surf "Aluminum chlorhydrate" AND "Alzheimers"
...Jim Thompson
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In topical use ?
Graham
Maybe it's a good thing I tend to rely on washing to avoid smelling then ?
Graham
Same here. Plus, in Arizona, you don't sweat, you sublimate ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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