Posted by
Autumnus Nicneven on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:44:56 PM
I am a smoker. I admit it and I enjoy sitting within my billowing clouds of aromatic tar and bleach. Sure, I could quit. If I would quit, I could save myself from the sneers, dirty looks, whispered insults, and invasion of personal space. In fact, if I would quit, I could enjoy more resturants, more bars, and maybe even more friends. I would no longer have to worry about if I smell like stale smoke or even if I'm making someone uncomfortable. But yet I continue to smoke...and I like it.
Now I just gave some excellent reasons to quit smoking and I could give even more. But frankly, the pros of quitting are outweighed by my happiness and enjoyment factor. I LOVE to smoke. It gives me peace, it gives me solace, it gives me a sense of relaxation and it's a part of who I am as an individual. Sadly many don't understand, especially those who are Liberal or part of the Health Care Community. My doctors stare at me blankly when I say I'm a smoker and will continue to be one. They give the run down of the cons, I almost have it memorized. When that drivel doesn't sway me, they threaten me or try to convince me that I'm a murderer of sorts; subjecting everyone to my nasty, filthy habit is literally going to kill them...in 30-40 years, give or take.
I marvel at their psychic prowess. I usually retort with a question, "When and how will I die? I'd like to make a note of it in my date book". Unfortunantly many doctors are seemingly without a sense of humor. And because of my flipant attitude, they then wax poetic on how I will die a horrible death from lung cancer or chronic broncitis. Again I must marvel at their Nostradomas like intuition and it begs another question, "If I die in a freak water buffalo accident, will it be cigarette induced? Or perhaps I'm run over by a bus, will the bus be drawn to me because of my cloud of smoke?" But I already went over on how doctors have no sense of humor nor do they like sarcasm.
I really do find it fascinating the pride that one incurs as a Non-Smoking Nazi. I leave out those people who just find smoke irritating because of some health malady...but even they can be a bit uppity and pissy as they sit on their high horse of Asthma. Although, if one has smoke induced Asthma, why sit in the smoking section? But that's a bit too logical, isn't it. I'm sure you've noticed a hint of disgust for the non-smoking crowd and you would be extremely perceptive. However I have good reason to be disgusted with these Puritanical Sicophants. The taxes from my dirty habit are going to things that while they may be benefitial, I and other smokers should not be singel handedly paying for them while being chastized for our killing the whole of mankind. Do you see the hypocrasy?
I and others like me are being extorted by the Government. Taxation without representation...I believe there was a giant tea party about such things many moons ago. Smokers are inandated with threats, jeers, and other such rude behaviour all the while paying taxes that would make Bill Gates blush. And why is that, do you ask? Because of circular logic. Circular logic is a favorite of Liberals and their ilk because they're never truely pinned down...unless you can see it. They say, with a smirk, that smokers will never stop, so let's have them pay for child health care benefits with outrageous taxes. But yet, let's make it illegal to smoke in their own house because we wouldn't want them to hurt anyone...but oh no, more people are quitting, let's raise the cigarette tax to cover our losses and let's also make it illegal to smoke in a car with a minor in it. Gives you the bends doesn't it.
I really must applaud the Neo-Nazis of our day. They, with their willing accomplices in the drive-by media, are able to convince thousands that smokers are the Typhoid Marys of our day and age, so let's "smoke" them out into the sunlight so we can extort them with their addiction. This has got to stop. For you people out there who are all for the smoking taxes and the benefits that arise by Government mandate with those taxes, do you really think that those benefits will ever end? Do you honestly think that if all the smokers quit that Government will no longer have those programs that were being paid for souly by the smokers? You're in for a rude awakening if you believe that. The beast that is Government will never stop feeding, so if you appluad them now for the good that they're doing with the cigarette tax, eventually, they'll come after you.
To be more to the point, if I quit smoking, you, the non-smokers, the Brown Shirts of this age, will take up the slack. It will be YOU who will be funding the programs that you now worship, and you will have no one to blame but yourself. You people who want the smokers punished will eventually be punished yourself for letting Government get too large. When they come into the homes of the smokers it's only a few more steps before they come into your home. When they tax us, the smokers, to fund their "good deeds" they will eventually tax you, the non-smokers, when we smokers are tapped out.
Think about it before you wish for more punishment on those evil smokers you abhore, because eventually, you'll be taking our place on the sacrifical alter to the god of Government. The Government doesn't care who it taxes as long as they get what they're "owed", and soon they'll be coming for you for payment that we smokers can no longer pay. The calf is waiting...will you set it free, or are you willing to take it's place when it's ashes are scattered in the wind?