To Smoke Or Not To Smoke - Pic

No I think it would be a subtle reminder......no matter how many pieces it ends up being...:) Now as far as the stitches you receive...well that's another issue

I used to put water in my parent's ashtrays. They didn't really like that.

Just wait until you see the new cigarette packages that show the black lungs of smokers. That should stop quite a few smokers from continuing.

They already do it in Canada......

Those bottom two look very much like my aunt did before she died. Rotten teeth and skinny as a rail!! From 200+ lbs to 80 pounds. I told her she was a walking skeleton. 🙁

Time to pick another whipping boy, not much blood left to extract from the smokers. How about beer being next in the social engineering cycle.
jud

Jud...beer should be the next choice...becuase

if you start whoopin' up on McRibs, there will be consequences....:)

Call it what you will. I remember before the '80s or perhaps the '90s even when you couldn't get away from cigarette stench. Drafting offices that were a cloud of smoke.

I used to light up in college in the 70s in class and have a little vial for flicking the ashes into. It was gross and pathetic.

I am not a big "politically correct" type fan, but I have no problem with others not being able to stink up a public room or office and make me live with that kind of stench.

(Oh yeah, I don't particularly like people being able to get drunk and cause havoc on the roadways either)

> Time to pick another whipping boy, not much blood left to extract from the smokers. How about beer being next in the social engineering cycle.
> jud

Yes, we need someone to save us from ourselves, God only knows, we need it......

> I used to put water in my parent's ashtrays. They didn't really like that.

Ohhh this reminds me of when I got a tin of those little itty bitty mini firecrackers that are made for the inside of cigarettes as a gag joke and I put them into one of my mom and aunts cigarettes and then put the cigarette back into the pack and just waited. Everytime they'd light up, us kids would watch through the corner of our eye to see if they got the "pop" one. Finally when they did and they lit up and that thing went POP I'd laugh so hard I'd be in tears!!
:party: :clap: :angel:

Radar

I saw on the news last night where American companies will have to put those pictures on the smoke boxes now. I don't smoke. I hate that the companies have to do this now. It's BS to mandate scare tactics to get someone to quit using a product.

If the silly SOB doesn't know it's bad for them by now, what is a picture going to do, shame them into quitting.

It's a disgusting attack on business that I don't like at all. What's next, dead people on bottles of whiskey? Pictures of cirrhosis on a 30 pack of miller light?

Trying to save ourselves from ourselves will never work and business will suffer. This isn't even about regulation, it's about the gov sticking it's nose where it doesn't belong.

Radar

> Trying to save ourselves from ourselves will never work and business will suffer. This isn't even about regulation, it's about the gov sticking it's nose where it doesn't belong.

Sorry I should've put a winky, smiley thingy in my post;-)

Talk about Government sticking it's noses in....get a load of this

Washington State Bans Alcoholic Energy Drinks like Four Loko

If I said our Governor was an idiot, would that make me a troll, looking to get banned from this site?

Radar

It started out as a training tool. Beat up the smokers, a safe thing to attack. Now it is programed in that that kind of activity is approved by all. Now that the action and methods used have became a way of life for some, it is easy easy to sic them onto almost anything while over in the corner the real damage to our future gets done. People are like a bunch of sheep, they need to be led and will blindly follow the Judas goat.
jud

Smoke Away

I don't really care if anyone smokes. Now that they have eliminated it from the workplace, bars & restaurants (in the civilized states); I don't have to come home smelling like an ashtray.

I like the astray ... (but I'd be tacky enough to have your daughter give it to her on Mother's day -- of course I'd include a note of "love".)

Angel - In years to come, think ashtrays will become "collector items".
Especially the big oblong orange/green ones from the 60's and 70's.

When it comes to cancer, this is the one I'm not understanding (HOW could this happen?):
Famous Oklahoma City Zoo sea lion dies
"...tiny white nodules covered Midge's lungs. D'Agostino said she believes the nodules were cancerous."

In my opinion, I don't think they should put the pics on the cig packs.
I compare it to seat belts/airplanes/cell phones with pics of wrecks or liquor bottles with pics of cirrhosis.

Love the ashtray, Angel...I need one for my wife!

Quitting was both the hardest and most rewarding thing I've ever done.

I only hope I can undo 34 years of stupidity.

Rick

Yeeesh! that would be one hell of an advertisement for a good toothbrush.

and you didn't get grounded for a month? You should have.:pissed:

And you actually lived to adulthood? A small miracle that you did. 😀