Take It From Michael, Quit Smoking
May 13th, 2006 at 5:05 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesThis is one post that will probably piss off a lot of you smokers. You know what? I don’t care. You’ll be dead soon enough anyway and I won’t have to listen to you gripe.
Anyway, if there’s one thing that makes me blind with rage (aside from liberal Republicans), it’s when I see somebody driving around smoking with small children or infants in the car. You see it constantly in Knoxville and surrounding areas.
It’s one thing if you want shorten your own life expectancy. If you don’t care, why should anyone else? Smoke up. However, show some fucking respect for your kids – they’re prisoners to your habits. What did they do to deserve your second-hand shit?
Even better, just quit for your own good.
Take it from Michael, one of the blogosphere’s good guys.
[This post was brought to you by someone who has never smoked, despite the best efforts of the evil tobacco companies to market to me.]
May 13th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Even worse, the little wogs have a tendency to break into your pack & eat perfectly expensive cigarettes! Then, having masticated a few bucks worth of fine tobacco, they spew it all over the carpet! The shits!
May 14th, 2006 at 8:51 am
See? Told you this would piss off the smokers.
May 14th, 2006 at 9:16 am
You’ll get my once-or-twice-per-month cigar from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
p.s. No children are harmed whilst I indulge myself. I smoke outside while mowing the lawn or in the car while driving solo.
I’m glad to hear the Michael is doing well, but you can color me pissed.
May 14th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Not smoking is a major turn-on.
Nothing sucks worse than having to sit at the bar by oneself 15 minutes out of every hour while your date/friends leave and go outside to smoke (smoking’s not allowed in most Twin Cities bars) and having them say, “Hey, you sit here and watch our drinks, Feisty.”
Fuck off with that shit. I don’t come to the damn bar to sit alone, and with the date-rape drug fuckers everywhere, I almost actually HAVE to sit there and watch the f’n’ drinks.
May 15th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
I just quit 7 days ago…cold turkey. I believe that only a smoker (or ex-smoker) truly has the right to say “hey, little kids, don’t ever ever EVER smoke!” Only those of us who decided to cave under the pressure to smoke have any concept of what a motherfucker it is to wake up in the morning and feel like a slave to tobacco. To cough, gag, hack and sometimes puke…followed by the instant urge to re-pave your respiratory tract…
I’m 29 and I smoked for almost 15 years…roughly half my life. It makes me giggle to think about finally being free of it. If my kids ever decide to go through that “phase” (mind you, I have never smoked in my home so my kids have only been exposed to “outdoor smoke”), I will kick their asses thoroughly. Makes me mad even thinking about it and they are only 2 and 4 years old!
May 15th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
“I believe that only a smoker (or ex-smoker) truly has the right to say “hey, little kids, don’t ever ever EVER smoke!””
And only someone fighting in the war can comment on the war, and only someone who voted can complain about who won… yadda yadda.
Glad you quit though.
May 15th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Smoking is different, P. You have no fucking clue what a son-of-a-bitch it is to finally put these damn things down (not as hard as I expected, as I had these mental images of the detox scene from “Trainspotting”).
Kudos to you for never touching them, but I can assure you that I can make a more compelling argument for staying away than you can.
May 15th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
Did I mention that I totally agree with you on the “smoking in the car with kids” thing? You would think that common sense would dictate the solution, and that laws wouldn’t have to…BUT…
May 16th, 2006 at 7:16 am
“Kudos to you for never touching them, but I can assure you that I can make a more compelling argument for staying away than you can.”
Andrew, you’re probably right about that. I took your initial statement as one of those “since you’ve never done it, you have no right to talk about it” arguments. Good luck stayin’ off the cancer sticks.
May 16th, 2006 at 10:32 am
Please. You’re just jumping on the Maryscott O’Connor stop smoking bandwagon
May 16th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Today’s Smoking is Sexy! pic
May 16th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Now that pic is enough to make me change my mind on this whole smoking issue.
May 16th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
My oh my, smoking IS glamorous! How silly of me to quit!
May 17th, 2006 at 9:05 am
It look like Gaddafi just “consummated” his newly improved relationship with the U.S.