I’m going to go burn one

I’ve been reading lately about how people who smoke cigarettes (we’ll call them Smokers) are all hissy’d-up because their gawd-given right to smoke cigarettes are slowly being taken from them.

I was not aware of any removal of these rights as cigarettes are sold everywhere (especially at NASCAR events) and if you want to buy and smoke a pack of 20 deadly tumors, have at it.  Seems like if someone is making cigarettes then someone else must be buying them and that looks like nothing has changed.

Oh … the Smokers are complaining because they thought they had the “right” to smoke whenever and wherever they please.  Well Eddie that isn’t a “right”, that is a “convenience” (which is also where you probably work … at a Convenience Store) and yes the ability for you to conveniently smoke at your leisure has been removed.  You can still smoke in your trailer (unless it’s a rental).

Somehow just the removal of the convenience of smoking next to a total stranger on a bus or in a restaurant has made Smokers flaming mad.  Better burn one to calm down.

Back in the day, they used to have non-smoking and smoking sections on airplanes.  Imagine today being 38,000 feet in the air in a bus with wings and some Jethro lights up a cigarette in row 28 – did they think that somehow the carcinogens wouldn’t drift to row 6.  The only reason they stopped letting people smoke was the law-suits forming due to Smokers puffing away and blowing smoke in everyone’s face.

You know smoking will never go away because every time you see the grainy footage of some shirtless hillbilly robbing a store, it always shows him jumping over the counter stealing a shitload of cigarettes.  No urge that great could ever die.

And then you have all of the people at the dreaded “designated smoking areas” outside of public buildings.  Talk about your starting lineup for Government sponsored forced sterilization.  They all look a little zoned-out standing in the freezing cold half hunched over puffing away.  You know they waited to the last possible second to smoke one in the cold so after about three or four puffs they have that same far-off look a cat gets after licking its ass.

But the CEO’s of all the Tobacco companies said – under oath in front of Congress – that cigarettes were not addictive.  SMOKING them is addictive but in and of themselves they’re not addictive.

Now that’s a line of bullshit anyone can appreciate.