But I have noticed that few Europeans are seen without a smoke.
When I first saw this, I thought they meant their addiction to spending and the Welfare State.
That's by far not the worst of their suicidal addictions!
Cigarette smoking (like everythign else) is NOT harmful in moderation.
The reason there is so much negative press is because cigarette manufactures used to be HEAVY Republican donors
If they were heavy democrap supporters we would hear endless news (propaganda) stories about the “healthful benefits of bathing your lungs in cleansing smoke”
Sure, the other 125 million will eventually die, as will the rest of the European Union population, but how can anyone be absolutely positive that one has died due to smoking (my Dad has emphysema and has never touched tobacco in his life - neither did his parents. Will he become a "tobacco statistic"?).
So who's to say? The anti-tobacco lobby? Take it with a grain of salt. BTW, I enjoy an occasional Arturo Fuentes Hemingway Classic.
I smoke.
There are many reasons to smoke. as noted, sex and combat. Being a White male in today’s America, you’re geting screwed in numerous ways and dealing with an American way of life being twisted and reconfigured to an alien, socialist model is like being in constant ‘’combat’’. Not a shooting war, not the horrific combat our warriors deal with every day, but a combat against an insidious enemy, personified in the 0bamanist regime.
Smoking keeps me from losing it and taking out whatever threats to me and my family I am confronted with. Take away my means of ‘’coping’’ and you reap what you will.
The only reason that the governmental functionaries want to ban smoking is so that they can tax, regulate, and control your a** for 80 years instead of 70.
The longer you live the more taxes they get,control?.
I just spent a couple of weeks in Paris, where I saw more beautiful women than I ever have in my life. They were all slimmer than the average American woman, but nearly all of them smoked.
I theorize that there exists a shadowy arm of the law that observes them, sort of like the old Stasi or KGB. When they have failed to observe a youngster smoking for a period of time, they take her off the street and stick her in a reeducation camp, where the kid is subjected to primitive but effective techniques of behavior modification.
She'll come out puffing, like her peers.
In a way, socialist societies depend on their smokers. Not just for confiscatory tax revenues from smokers when they are still earning, but also for their early demise from various cancers or heart disease, which eases the old-age pension burden on the welfare system.
[ One half of a ≤}B^) ]
Europeans cannot shake suicidal habit (entitlement)
Either way, you won't get out of life alive.
If you watch old movies, not necessarily even those with the poor cough, coughing (off screen) Humphrey Bogart, you’ll notice how much dramatical mileage is gained through lighting, puffing and putting out those poison sticks. Characters speak, scream and shout without saying a word. It’s all missing from the current movies, or is employed self-consciously, clumsily and over the top.