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Sensible Smoker Says
...tobac-co-conspirators should stand up for their rights (at a reasonable distance, of course, and/or downwind.)
...smokers should show respect for their tobac-cohort. Solidarity among smokers!
...smokers shouldn’t combust when the well-meaning try to tobac-coerce you. Keep your tobac-cool!
Category Archives: Politics & Policy
Bring Back the Smoking Parlor
After dinner, the men would retire to the parlor with their cigars and brandy, while the women sipped tea and sherry in the drawing room. This seems quaint, but practical, to the Sensible Smoker. Why not designate one room of … Continue reading
Dutch Genius
In the mid 90’s, at the height of the U.S. War on Drugs — when cops and district attorneys were seizing old people’s farmhouses because their grandson kept his stash in their basement, while other people were being imprisoned for … Continue reading
A Culture of Lying
CNN, quoting the Surgeon General, reported that “secondhand smoke is as dangerous as smoking.” Time Magazine and the BBC, quoting the United Nations, reported that “secondhand smoke causes Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.” A married couple says a debt reduction company … Continue reading
Secondhand Somalia
So they arrested this poor Somali kid who’s got so many reasons to feel like a hated outcast that — in his adolescent brain — the possibility of death is no doubt less horrible than the thought of going one … Continue reading