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I could rant at length about the current attitude of the anti-smoking campaign (ie; truth.com, et al, ad nauseum), but noone needs that. In the spirit of brevity being the measure of wit (or whatever the fuck that guy said, I was out having my lungs pumped that day), allow me to sum up.
I used to work for a 60-something guy who was really dang cool and really dang smart. One day, we were engaging in our standard casual banter when the topic of smoking and its ills came up. He said, basically, this:
"This stuff about smoking being bad for you is nothing new. People have always known smoking is bad for you. It's just that back in the day, everybody smoked, and nobody wanted to hear it."
And the award for Most Concisely Accurate Social Commentary goes to...
Oh, one more comment. You know that truth.com ad where all these prop planes trailing banners fly across the sky, and the banners read "ingredients in cigarettes?" One of the ingredients is "dog urine." I'm not trying to imply that truth.com is a bunch of alarmist wackos who are too intent on shoving their opinion down your throat with a snapped-off broom handle to present their argument in a manner which doesn't skew the facts so far to the right that if they were ever introduced to Nascar, you would spontaneously generate antimatter, but I think what they "meant" to say is that urea--a urine derivative (and bear in mind that urine eliminates, amongst other things, dead body cells and excess life-building materials)--is used to fertilize tobacco plants. Urea is also used to fertilize just about every other plant, so I guess every time you eat a salad, give someone roses, or take a walk in the park, you're advancing the Nazi Communist Dog Piss Agenda.
I used to work for a 60-something guy who was really dang cool and really dang smart. One day, we were engaging in our standard casual banter when the topic of smoking and its ills came up. He said, basically, this:
"This stuff about smoking being bad for you is nothing new. People have always known smoking is bad for you. It's just that back in the day, everybody smoked, and nobody wanted to hear it."
And the award for Most Concisely Accurate Social Commentary goes to...
Oh, one more comment. You know that truth.com ad where all these prop planes trailing banners fly across the sky, and the banners read "ingredients in cigarettes?" One of the ingredients is "dog urine." I'm not trying to imply that truth.com is a bunch of alarmist wackos who are too intent on shoving their opinion down your throat with a snapped-off broom handle to present their argument in a manner which doesn't skew the facts so far to the right that if they were ever introduced to Nascar, you would spontaneously generate antimatter, but I think what they "meant" to say is that urea--a urine derivative (and bear in mind that urine eliminates, amongst other things, dead body cells and excess life-building materials)--is used to fertilize tobacco plants. Urea is also used to fertilize just about every other plant, so I guess every time you eat a salad, give someone roses, or take a walk in the park, you're advancing the Nazi Communist Dog Piss Agenda.