Thank you! I intend to. heh! 
Posted on 11/26/2002 4:58:07 AM PST by SheLion
Thank you! I intend to. heh!
Pick Pick Pick. Your beliefs or no beliefs. Hey, good for you! Mold the world in the way you think it should go. Good luck!
Your bio says "Live Free Or Die." Well, we ARE trying to live free.
I don't understand your post, Jim. Quit? Quit what? Quit smoking? Quit Free Republic? What are you saying to me.
#2.) I agree with you 100%.
Oh! You don't think North Carolina would suffer if they lost all the contributions made by the smokers there? I think your sadly mistaken. When states can't even balance their budgets without the taxes on cigarettes, this goes to tell you something. Why don't you wake up.
As far as the 'benefits' of smoking are concerned... I've been in Europe several times this year and, one thing you can't miss is how many people smoke there. The second thing that's hard to miss is how much fatter the Americans are. I don't know if it's smoking that's keeping the Euros thin or it's the lack of it or maybe that PLUS television that makes our compatriots fat but... it's only an observation. I would suspect that lots of people who don't die of lung cancer in the U.S. because they no longer smoke may be heading to an early grave courtesy of various obesity-related diseases.
I'm going to have to see if those places have clove mixes...
I hope you quit smoking, because we need you to stay alive.
Note that I said, " I hope". I completely defend your right to do what you want, but that doesn't mean I defend the absurd proposition that smoking isn't bad for you.
It's not bad-it's terribly bad.
The reality of how bad smoking is has nothing to do with your freedom to do it.
Even places that tout themselves as top flite serve the same bland crap in only slightly variable phoney "atmosphere".
We could probably get a thread of it's own out of that.
Check in the Big Book for your local Smoke Shop!
Scary, isn't it? That's why it upsets me so when we have Doctors coming in here and spewing their stuff. 
When the JAMA has an article about Doctors and health care, you KNOW it's not all lies! ugh!
Jim, I am not obese. I do not drink. I do not do drugs. I do not drive fast I wear my seatbelt. I am in good physical health, having a complete physical and work-up every year.
I'm living on the verge of being a vegetarian, not eating a lot of meat. And my belief is this: when it's time for me to go, it won't matter one bit to the Good Lord if I ever smoked or not.
I appreciate your concern, Jim. But honestly now, why does it matter to you. My husband pays my bills. And we have health care. VERY GOOD health care. I/We are not a burden to anyone.
OH! LOL! I was WONDERING what the heck you meant. hehe!
I'm going to have to see if those places have clove mixes...
Check in the Big Book for your local Smoke Shop!
I mean, bulk clove mixes for my own rolling. Shops around here have packaged Djarums and other brands.
Or are you some sort of security bureaucrat selling the party line?
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