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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “No, Jon, smoking is not the ‘big deal’ here,” said a Reader’s Write in response to my comment post in Smoking trucker story – still smokin’.

I’d said, “That’s almost a side-issue. It’s mainly about big corporations still being allowed to sell highly addictive and, utlimately, lethal ‘product’.”

“Would that include alcohol too?” – wondered RW. “As I hear no one moaning and bitching about that … and it is so much worse!!”

Big difference, RW.  Apples and oranges.

As a recovering addict and an ex-smoker, I’ve been there with both.

I know lots of people who drink and smoke dope — and even a small number who do other kinds of drugs — safely and without injuring their health.

But I don’t know of anyone who can smoke safely.

Alcohol at a party, or even a wake, or a few beers during the game, or in any of the other thousands of social occasions? No worries.

But there’s nothing good or beneficial about smoking.

It isn’t a filthy habit. It’s a filthy addiction. And it has absolutely nothing to recommend it.

Smokers’ breath stinks. So does  their hair. So do their clothes. So do their houses and cars.

Their teeth turn brown and they have yellow nicotine stains on their fingers.

They cough a lot and their skin takes on a pasty look.

And that’s the good part.

After the smoking trucker story, I had several emails accusing me of being an ex-smoker who hates people who still light up.

‘I smoke because I want to so fuck you,’ said one.

Sure.

The only people who get anything out of smoking are the tobacco companies.

And they don’t sell to consumers.

They peddle to addicts who can’t help themselves.

And no one else is helping them either.

Jon Newton – p2pnet

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi

October, 2009

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