That sounds risky, I once swallowed a piece of chewing gum do you think I will need some help?
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That sounds risky, I once swallowed a piece of chewing gum do you think I will need some help?
Trix is my guilty pleasure go-to cereal, breakfast or dinner.
Trader Joe's version of Cherrios (Joe's O's) is really good too.
Trader Joe's version of Cherrios (Joe's O's) is really good too.
Just don't eat watermelon seeds.That sounds risky, I once swallowed a piece of chewing gum do you think I will need some help?
I think the only concern about tobacco use is by minors, such as when Camel started advertising with a cartoon figure but I think much of the anti-smoking efforts contribute to the lure of tobacco. My dad smoked for most of my childhood and I don't expect to suffer any residual effects from that. Taxing a product that has fallen out of favor with the public at large and things like hotel and restaurant taxes are easy, somewhat hidden ways to generate revenue.
My grandfather smoked cigars all his life. He died of cancer. When he was just shy of 90.
I don't smoke because I can't afford his brand.
I don't smoke because I can't afford his brand.
Grandmother and grandfather were both chain smokers.
He died of lung cancer at 73 in 1967.
She swore off smokes when he died, but when I moved into her home in the '80s, it was obvious that she had been smoking between the smell and yellowed paint.
She died at 104, but in all honesty, her last 10-15 years was not pleasant. She had been carrying an O2 bottle from about 75, and was pretty much bedridden in a nursing home for the last 10.
No cancer, but the emphysema was nasty. She described it being like an asthma attack 24/7.
Dad is 91. Never drank or smoked (who knows what he was exposed to in the Navy during WWII in the Marshall Islands). He's survived two bouts with prostate cancer and colon polyps, and 2 years ago got a pacemaker.
Doc just checked his pacemaker and batteries and said he was good for another 9 years
He also has two brand new knees that have a 30 year warranty. He told the doc that he was going to get his money's worth out of his new knees so he had better plan to replace those batteries a couple more times.
Sometimes, I'm tempted in my "if I ruled the world" moments, to contemplate a "Darwin Awards" approach to smoking. The sum total of government "advertising" on tobacco would be the political leaders telling the populace "you know it'll kill you. Do what you want. Just don't come crying to me or our hospitals when you get lung cancer."
It's far too "cold" to ever fly in real life, but come on ... with what we know now about smoking, there's really no reason for anyone to take up the hobby.
I dunno.
Too bad there are no graphic commercials to warn us of the dangers thereof.
Ah, the old "George Burns" argument.
"That guy who created the jogging craze died of a heart attack when he was 53 and George Burns lived to be 100". I don't buy it. Some people are genetically blessed with a long lifespan, and others are cursed with a short one. It's how you take care of yourself that extends or shortens however much time you have.
If we take instead of "smoking", the practice of "landing on Omaha Beach", it's easy to say that "my grandfather landed on Omaha beach and he lived to be 94" ... but that doesn't reduce the fact that "landing on Omaha beach" was a very unhealthy activity.
Actually, my argument is just that if you live long enough your habits will eventually catch up with you. I wouldn't want to go the way he did. He was also one of the Greatest Generation and lived life on the edge. He smoked Cubans which he got through his Cold War contacts.
I won't lie in a hospital bed and be dying of nothing.
Red meat.
Cigars.
Fast cars.
Loose women.
Beeeers.
Watch this.......
The most dangerous words that can pass a southern boy's lips.
