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I have nothing against blue collar - it's just that statistically speaking, the higher educated people are, the numbers go down for smoking. Not sure why totally, but it's a fact. Also, I forgot to mention that people have the right to have sexual intercourse also, but I wouldn't want that done in front of me either - some things should be done AWAY from other people and children and smoking is one of them.

God Bless your dad. I admire the working people in this world and I do not hold any kind of elitist view toward them as other people I have seen. In fact, many of them, in my opinion, are much more interesting with varied interests and hobbies unlike the boring corporate types I've spent my whole life with who golf and boat and all do the same boring things.

I have nothing against blue collar - it's just that statistically speaking, the higher educated people are, the numbers go down for smoking. Not sure why totally, but it's a fact.

Prove it.

I forgot to mention that people have the right to have sexual intercourse also, but I wouldn't want that done in front of me either - some things should be done AWAY from other people and children and smoking is one of them.

You are, in essence, equating smoking in front of children with saving sex in front of them? The latter is perverted and illegal. I find that comment extremely offensive. You are really going off the deep end here. People like you scare the heck out of me.

it's just that statistically speaking, the higher educated people are, the numbers go down for smoking.

I have a theory about why this is.

A cigarette and a beer at the end of the day is the workingman's vacation.

They live closer to the edge, where toughness is admired (and necessary) and whininess is rightfully shunned as a sign of weakness. They also tend to be more independent and strong-willed.

Move on up the economic ladder, where the necessities for basic survival are taken care of more comfortably and worries about real issues like survival are replaced by "worries" like "Does my BMI meet current government standards?" or "What does this car say about me?"

So, overwhelmed by important anxieties such as this, they avail themselves of psycotherapy, which often drugs them into a comfort zone and sends them into a further downward spiral of narcissism.

But, thank God, they don't have to resort to smoking like the lower classes.

So, from my observations, the smoking Jihad is nothing less than class warfare.

Which is why the education and income level of smokers is consistently referenced by their "betters."