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son, me wanting to smoke a cigarette hurts no one and judges no one. On the contrary son, you people are the ones doing the judging, and starting. And the commenting.
But son you need to realize something, son, the #1 cause of cancer son, diabetes, heart disease, early, death, missed work etc. is not smoking son, it is obesity combined with a sedentary lifestyle son. Son, smoking has been proven to help weight loss and prevent weight gain. So son while it may be considered part of the reason for the #2 cause of death, it helps prevent the main culprits behind the #1 and other leading(Alzheimers) causes of death.
Son it also prevents or reduces the chance of getting alzheimers, parkinsons disease, breast cancer, some types of skin cancer and improves coginitive brain function, alertness and mental acuity.
Son that whole Parkinsons and Alzheimers thing is an important one son. While the idea of spending a couple of months coughing up blood on a morphine drip may seem like an awful death to you, spending the last 10 years of your life forgotten in a nursing home hoping someone will remember to change your diaper, feed you, or pick you up off the floor, that week, and being forcibly kept alive and imprisoned in your own body when every part of it, including your mind is telling you to die because it's not going to get any better, seems like a much worse way to go out to me. But to each their own. We all gotta die of something.
But since you went there son...let's look at the smokers vs the non-smokers.
Since WWII(and just about all of them used tabacco, or weed sometimes even an ephedrine drink made from boiling a plant, similar to coffee, prior to WWII), these are the Presidents that have smoked tabaccy(in office), we'll call them the two termers for lack of a better term(LBJ chose not to run again):
These are the ones that didn't, we'll call them the wallflower crew since they are either one termers, non full termers, failed to finish their second termers or two termers out of complete and total stupidity on the part of the loyal opposition:
These are your non-smoking, healthy, non-lazy, Presidents son:
And we all know which one Mr. Obama is btw thanks to the avatar of an imvp. I did not like Mr. Obama original stances on either Iraq or Afghanistan, I considered him to be somewhat of an asshat for having them...that said, he changed his opinion on Iraq after visiting it, and he has come to a fairly sensible conclusion on Afghanistan once he processed additional information, although his announcement of a time limit was a stupid one which he will never live up to. So on those two key issues he has taken a non-asshat stance after recieving additional information(something guys like blake and the wallflower Presidents could not do)...Jury's still out on him. Too early.
All politics aside, one group was pretty overwhelmingly two termers(or more) due to popularity, not just within their own base, but with everyone, the second group, who are half and half, are barely even liked by their own parties.
And yes son, Reagan was a smoker, 3 packs a day, while he was President. I'll just point out that he survived being shot(in the lung no less, at the age of 70), the only President to do so, and was the oldest President at the time of taking office and was considered to be incredibly healthy for his age. He did quit smoking, and he also got Alzheimers shortly afterwards. Still, he made it to 90 something years old despite being a 3 pack a day smoker, getting shot in his 70's and took down the commies in the process. Not too bad for a frail sickly lazy ass and stinky smoker.
Son, you non-smokers also get this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_ban
Seems ole Adolph was one of those pussies with an oversensitive nose. You sh always watch out for those guys.
The first modern, nationwide tobacco ban was imposed by the Nazi Party in every German university, post office, military hospital, and Nazi Party office, under the au es of Karl Astel's Ins ute for Tobacco Hazards Research, created in 1941 under orders from Adolf Hitler.[24] [b]Major anti-tobacco campaigns were widely broadcast by the Nazis until the demise of the regime in 1945.[25]
It's the Truth(dotorg) son.... So when I call you guys Nazis...it's based on fact.
Actually, ya'll are worse....at least to start off.
So, IMHO, if you are an anti-smoking vegetarian...I'd definitely be on the watch for Parkinsons...if I were you. And please don't run for office.
You see...it's not insane for me to say, hey, look at that plant, I think I'll smoke it. It's insane for you to say well I am going to persecute you for doing it, not to mention tax the living out of you and tell you you stink. Oh btw, buy this much more expensive gum containing the same drug(minus the hallucinogens)
One is clearly a huge ing asshole minding someones else business...the other is not.
