Yips,
Yesterday I heard about it, today I saw the images.
Perhaps now groceries stores will be compelled to hide the ciggies, either that or settle for selling less food.
Then again, maybe most of us have become too inured to notice, too numb to care.
I thought we ‘rational’ people realized that people aren’t very rational? Although overcoming a nicotine addiction is a bit different than say… choosing broccoli* over a bacon cheeseburger. (Although for some it might be just as difficult.)
Take care,
Derek, a former smoker
* Broccoli with bacon and cheese is quite tasty as well.
I thought we ‘rational’ people realized that people aren’t very rational? Although overcoming a nicotine addiction is a bit different than say… choosing broccoli* over a bacon cheeseburger. (Although for some it might be just as difficult.)
Take care,
Derek, a former smoker
* Broccoli with bacon and cheese is quite tasty as well.
You mean Bacon with cheese smoothering a bit of broccoli
Derek, Congrat’s on kicking the habit.
I had sort of a habit in my twenties for a while, but it amounted to one or two in the evening, very elegant, and sexy. Dang if that wasn’t tough enough to kick. In fact, not sure I could have totally kicked it if my body didn’t start kicking my butt. Anymore if I smoke a couple cigarettes, I come down with a terrible chest cold. Tested a number of times over many years. Now I don’t even think about trying anymore.
Too bad I can’t master all my vices with such aplomb.
Too bad I can’t master all my vices with such aplomb.
Agreed…
Congratulations to you as well! It’s been fifteen years for me. I used to smoke 2 to 2 1/2 packs a day; even more when I went to the bar. I don’t miss it one bit. After the first six months or so rediscovering the taste of food was amazing!
Too bad I can’t master all my vices with such aplomb.
Agreed…
Congratulations to you as well! It’s been fifteen years for me. I used to smoke 2 to 2 1/2 packs a day; even more when I went to the bar. I don’t miss it one bit. After the first six months or so rediscovering the taste of food was amazing!
Take care,
Derek
Three years smokefree here as of 6/8/11.I started smoking at 12 and I quit at 27.It was much less difficult than I thought.Damn your right about food,now I’m a big fan of spices and herbs,when I smoked I could’nt really taste much difference beween anything!
Oh those tobacco smokers… its the marijuana smokers who try-like-hell to keep their smoke to themselves, yet they are the ones who get the bad reputation and jail time… the tobacco smokers (boo hoo hoo) get an itty bitty factual photo of the diseases that can happen.
Ah, yes! Justice in the USA, it is so very, very… oh f**k it.
Lets be real, the smokers today are the hard-core hold-outs. They are the right-wing smokers blaming this issue on leftist politics and using that as a childish excuse to ignore it. I’ve got family doing that right now.
This issue won’t really be solved until every non-smoker unites behind the medical professionals and supports Quitting in the homes, everyone with a loved one must make an issue of it. Do not pester the smoker daily, just demand some honest and valid answers from them when you ask questions, accept no deflection, accept no silence, accept no ignorance, and be honest.
I promise to be honest and non-pestering with my smoker. Who else is with me?
I’ve already gotten her to admit that she’s an addict. Boy oh boy is she hard on the rock ‘n’ roll drug addicts of the 1960’s, I gently point out her hypocrisy, just to go easy on the rock ‘n’ rollers.
Lets be real, the smokers today are the hard-core hold-outs. They are the right-wing smokers blaming this issue on leftist politics and using that as a childish excuse to ignore it.
While I’m sure there are some that fit that description, smoking in North America is most highly correlated with income and education, not politics.
Anti-quitting is part of the Republican War Against Science (RWAS). They are childishly in psychological denial of the science about tobacco. This is a well exampled fact, I’m sure most people have heard the right-wing complaints against the “nanny state” and the lame attempt to reverse the charge that they are oppressors (oppressing the gays, the creative expressive artists, the sex workers, the irreligious, the science, the liberated women, the liberated men, ...) onto the left-wing saying that the left is oppressing smokers and banning tobacco (since when is tobacco possession illegal??)... I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s heard them do this, this political factor in the tobacco problem is very important.
I’ve even heard Republican Congressmen defending the tobacco industry as a legal and profitable product!!!! This years after all the trials!!!
Show me the stats that dismiss those facts, please. To solve the tobacco problem, people have to get real about it, that’s all I’m saying. If there are there still some left-wing hold-outs, there are no left-wing political issues preventing them from quitting.
Would you stop driving, traveler, if your car came with THIS picture?
When I get a pack of cigarettes with the teeth, I ask for another one.
That’s a very good question, but smoking is not something one can do safely - driving is. I have heard that seat belts just make people drive more recklessly and that if you really want to have safe drivers you should install a sharp stake on the steering wheel pointing at the chest.
Also to your question, it seems that pictures have not been enough to make people quit in Canada so I sure don’t expect it to work in the U.S. I’m also always surprised when M.D.‘s and other professionals who know the harm being done continue to puff away.
They had a non-smoker lung next to a smoker lung at the Body Human exhibit here in Buffalo a couple of years back. The evidence was clear (actually, black). The science is in.
Lets be real, the smokers today are the hard-core hold-outs. They are the right-wing smokers blaming this issue on leftist politics and using that as a childish excuse to ignore it.
While I’m sure there are some that fit that description, smoking in North America is most highly correlated with income and education, not politics.
I agree! If anyone has a question on tobacco use, it is likely answered reliably HERE by the WHO.
I am surprised that Switzerland is one of the top (per capita) consumers (see HERE.) I wasn’t surprised that China and India are the top overall consumers.
Although overcoming a nicotine addiction is a bit different than say… choosing broccoli* over a bacon cheeseburger. (Although for some it might be just as difficult.)
Boy oh boy is she hard on the rock ‘n’ roll drug addicts of the 1960’s, I gently point out her hypocrisy, just to go easy on the rock ‘n’ rollers.
