I think this antismoking thing is getting ridiculous!!
Ever since the hard campaign started, they’ve found more and more things that either relate to or are caused by cigarette smoke, which has me real suspicious. Instantly, smoking causes cancer, heart disease, emphysema, obstructive lung disease, premature skin aging, and contributes to ulcers. Then they decided that second hand smoke does the same to anyone nearby, so smoking in buildings was mostly stopped. On came those ridiculous and stupid ads with the college kids, followed by ads for kids and by kids assuring smokers and possible smokers about how stupid smoking is, hitting in a range from innocent facts to emotional pleas designed to make parents feel guilty.
From there it was determined that unborn kids could be affected by smoking, then newly borns, then infants around smokers. At the same time it was determined that smoking could cause mouth cancer, add to eye disease, cause stomach and possible intestinal cancer. Insurance agencies suddenly found ways to get more money out of people by charging higher rates for smokers.
Cartoon commercials showed up against smoking. If a smoker smokes in the street, 2 times out of 10 someone will make some negative comment to him. Hospitals stopped allowing smokers to smoke in their confines, which is hell for a long time smoker in for a stay, and can actually prolong his recovery because he is going through withdrawal.
Even alcoholics are given a drink every couple of hours to keep them from going into withdrawals while in a hospital, but not smokers.
Now, according to a current report I read, any smoking woman on the pill has up to, and you just got to freak over this figure, 8000 more chances to get cancer than a nonsmoker. I figure they pulled that figure out of someone’s butt.
The antismoking thing is becoming as fanatical as the child molestation insanity in day care that raged like a forest fire in the 80s, complete with psychiatrists ‘discovering’ that thousands of people had repressed memories of being molested as children (they were wrong) and police ‘feeding’ the kids they questioned.
Do you know that there are now more antismoking ads and whatever out on the media than antidrug or antidrinking ones? The ads for no smoking are nastier than any other ads concerning drinking, drugs, sexual harassment, or stealing cable.
Smoking is getting blamed for causing everything from cancer to carbuncles to syphilis to loss of hair!
Do you have corns on your feet? Do ya smoke? Well, stupid, there’s your reason for corns! Bad teeth? Do ya smoke? Well, jerk, that’s yer reason! Paint peeling on your car? Do you smoke? Well, fool, that’s why!
Aren’t things getting a bit too fanatical about smoking?