Smoking is certainly a terrible addiction. I’m a retired truck driver. When I was working I was amazed how many people would flock outside factory doors in sub-zero weather to smoke on their break time. I never picked up the habit, but some people just can’t shake loose from the addiction to nicotine.
I have asthma and my brother also has allergies. The fact that our father smoked constantly probably didn’t help. But now I’m sensitive to the smell — I teach, and when parents are smokers, the smell draws into their kids’ books and papers, their clothes, everything.
As a militant anti-smoker I cringe anytime I see anyone smoking now. All I can think of that the only thing more stupid than smoking is strapping a bomb to your chest. Which reminds me, those 72 virgins they think they are going to meet after they push the button , I am told, are all nuns with great big rulers in their hands…
When are the colorists going to get Michael’s hairline right? I most of the strips lately he looks like he’s half-bald combing his bangs forward. Isn’t 8 a little young for a combover (combforward)?
About 15yrs ago, I had open heart surgery and my surgeon told me that for my age(at the time-early 60s) my lungs looked great and that if they had looked any different, he wouldn’t thought that I would have lasted another 5 years with my condition !
My own hubby never smoked but has first stint by 62. His dad smoked his brother smoked but hubby never did. His dad passed before retirement from heart failure and his brother passed with two months of cancer in lung.I do not want smokers in my house not to worry no family comes to our home. There home if and when visiting I have to tolerate.
Well Michael, when you have a house where your salary pays the mortgage and your name is on the title, then you can tell smokers they can smoke indoors all they want. But you are living in a house where the title is in someone else’s name, that of your mother and father, and as such, you have no right to dictate terms, and certainly not to talk back to your mother.
I live in the Las Vegas area, and the one place smoking is still allowed indoors is the casinos. When we spend a couple of hours at our local casino, we leave the clothes we wore hanging somewhere for a couple of days to air out before they even go in the hamper. And that’s even if we don’t sit next to a smoker, it’s just that bad in the air. Funny thing is, as long as you don’t sit next to a smoker, you don’t really notice the smell after a few minutes, but you sure do notice it on the clothes when you get home.
I lost two World War II vet uncles to the results of smoking. One died of lung cancer, the other of emphesema (however it’s spelled). Both tried really hard to quit, but ended up going back to smoking.
A few of my cousins who never smoked were raised by parents who smoked, and a number of those cousins now have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
I sympathize with anyone who is addicted to a powerful drug, but they need to protect their family from impacts. Even if you smoke outside, you often bring the chemicals back inside on your clothes, and it can get into the air that others breath. That is especially critical for babies.
For all the nasty health robbing side effects, there is a reason why so many great thinkers – and truck drivers – take up smoking. Nicotene enables the brain to have a calm focus. You need that when driving long distances. You need that to think deeply about a problem. Calm focus, that is. Maybe smoking isn’t the best way to achieve it.
Some alternatives are:1) green tea (unsweet). Not nearly as powerful for mental focus as nicotene, but very healthy. And it does help a lot. Truck drivers could also use the bottles to avoid extra rest stops.
2) other nicotene products. Vaping, patches, etc. You still have a dependency on the drug, and even without the tar, nicotene stresses your heart and hardens your arteries. (But it does only good things for your brain.)
3) yoga style exercises. There are yoga exercises designed for sitting, and I’ve for them very helpful on long drives, and on airplanes. Things like leg lifts, toe pointing, breathing exercise, etc.
That SUV is the only vehicle for a family that is safe. If you drive in the snow, rear wheel or 4 wheel drive is better. the little tiny cars are fine for clowns and those that are 5’-6" and smaller, butnormal people want to be able to sit comfortably in a seat with a seat belt and to be able to get in and out of the vehicle.SUVs are popular because they are not cars and are not subject to the ridiculas standards that congress has demanded.Larger vehicles are safer given the same safty equiptment.
Did I mention that my daughter-in-law, then a smoker whose frequency was throttled by living with my wife and me because we made them smoke outside, was able to notice how nasty her parents’ place smelled because they both smoked up the inside?
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
Starts to make me wonder now how Canadians who smoke smoke in such frigid temperatures.
alviebird over 8 years ago
Nothing militant about not wanting your house and everything in it to stink.
eelee over 8 years ago
Lynn said
I think I am a militant antismoker!
Egrayjames over 8 years ago
Smoking is certainly a terrible addiction. I’m a retired truck driver. When I was working I was amazed how many people would flock outside factory doors in sub-zero weather to smoke on their break time. I never picked up the habit, but some people just can’t shake loose from the addiction to nicotine.
Linguist over 8 years ago
It’s amazing how much smoking/non-smoking attitudes have changed in a couple or three decades. Do people even have ashtrays in their homes anymore ?
MIHorn Premium Member over 8 years ago
I have asthma and my brother also has allergies. The fact that our father smoked constantly probably didn’t help. But now I’m sensitive to the smell — I teach, and when parents are smokers, the smell draws into their kids’ books and papers, their clothes, everything.
cj7ole over 8 years ago
As a militant anti-smoker I cringe anytime I see anyone smoking now. All I can think of that the only thing more stupid than smoking is strapping a bomb to your chest. Which reminds me, those 72 virgins they think they are going to meet after they push the button , I am told, are all nuns with great big rulers in their hands…
sbwertz over 8 years ago
Youngsters, bear in mind that to a non-smoker, kissing a smoker is about as appealing as licking a dirty ashtray.
mai griffin over 8 years ago
Ask any smoker, after drawing deeply from a cigarette, to blow out through a white handkerchief stretched across their mouth…
What they see might worry them.
57-Don over 8 years ago
When are the colorists going to get Michael’s hairline right? I most of the strips lately he looks like he’s half-bald combing his bangs forward. Isn’t 8 a little young for a combover (combforward)?
IndyMan over 8 years ago
About 15yrs ago, I had open heart surgery and my surgeon told me that for my age(at the time-early 60s) my lungs looked great and that if they had looked any different, he wouldn’t thought that I would have lasted another 5 years with my condition !
kab2rb over 8 years ago
My own hubby never smoked but has first stint by 62. His dad smoked his brother smoked but hubby never did. His dad passed before retirement from heart failure and his brother passed with two months of cancer in lung.I do not want smokers in my house not to worry no family comes to our home. There home if and when visiting I have to tolerate.
USN1977 over 8 years ago
Well Michael, when you have a house where your salary pays the mortgage and your name is on the title, then you can tell smokers they can smoke indoors all they want. But you are living in a house where the title is in someone else’s name, that of your mother and father, and as such, you have no right to dictate terms, and certainly not to talk back to your mother.
JanLC over 8 years ago
I live in the Las Vegas area, and the one place smoking is still allowed indoors is the casinos. When we spend a couple of hours at our local casino, we leave the clothes we wore hanging somewhere for a couple of days to air out before they even go in the hamper. And that’s even if we don’t sit next to a smoker, it’s just that bad in the air. Funny thing is, as long as you don’t sit next to a smoker, you don’t really notice the smell after a few minutes, but you sure do notice it on the clothes when you get home.
BeniHanna6 Premium Member over 8 years ago
Wow, shows how old this strip is. Nowadays there would be NO pity for the idiot smoking.
Joken' over 8 years ago
Well that should get him to stop smoking!
Argy.Bargy2 over 8 years ago
I lost two World War II vet uncles to the results of smoking. One died of lung cancer, the other of emphesema (however it’s spelled). Both tried really hard to quit, but ended up going back to smoking.
A few of my cousins who never smoked were raised by parents who smoked, and a number of those cousins now have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
I sympathize with anyone who is addicted to a powerful drug, but they need to protect their family from impacts. Even if you smoke outside, you often bring the chemicals back inside on your clothes, and it can get into the air that others breath. That is especially critical for babies.
summerdog86 over 8 years ago
Oh yeah, I feel sorry for him…. NOT!
Tarredandfeathered over 8 years ago
Both my parents were chain smokers..I used to tell people that I was 12 before I realized that other people Didn’t live in a permanent Blue Haze..
slsharris over 8 years ago
No. Militant would mean going to PHIL’S house and demanding that he go outside to smoke.
tammyspeakslife Premium Member over 8 years ago
Tough love. Phil’s health is at stake too. Micheal will learn eventually <3
rekam Premium Member over 8 years ago
One of my husband’s uncles wouldn’t quit even after they found he had lung cancer from smoking. Wanted to die before his wife, and he did.
stuart over 8 years ago
For all the nasty health robbing side effects, there is a reason why so many great thinkers – and truck drivers – take up smoking. Nicotene enables the brain to have a calm focus. You need that when driving long distances. You need that to think deeply about a problem. Calm focus, that is. Maybe smoking isn’t the best way to achieve it.
Some alternatives are:1) green tea (unsweet). Not nearly as powerful for mental focus as nicotene, but very healthy. And it does help a lot. Truck drivers could also use the bottles to avoid extra rest stops.
2) other nicotene products. Vaping, patches, etc. You still have a dependency on the drug, and even without the tar, nicotene stresses your heart and hardens your arteries. (But it does only good things for your brain.)
3) yoga style exercises. There are yoga exercises designed for sitting, and I’ve for them very helpful on long drives, and on airplanes. Things like leg lifts, toe pointing, breathing exercise, etc.
route66paul over 8 years ago
That SUV is the only vehicle for a family that is safe. If you drive in the snow, rear wheel or 4 wheel drive is better. the little tiny cars are fine for clowns and those that are 5’-6" and smaller, butnormal people want to be able to sit comfortably in a seat with a seat belt and to be able to get in and out of the vehicle.SUVs are popular because they are not cars and are not subject to the ridiculas standards that congress has demanded.Larger vehicles are safer given the same safty equiptment.
Joken' over 8 years ago
When people say: “Mind if I smoke?” And I tell them only if they’re on fire!
Train 1911 over 8 years ago
WHAT THE 4 WHEEL DRIVE SUV GOT TO DO WITH THIS CARTOON ROUTE 66
Alphaomega over 8 years ago
I’ve smoked for 40 years and found no ill effects what so ever! I’ve smoked for 40 years and ,,,, wait , I already said that didn’t I?
K M over 8 years ago
Did I mention that my daughter-in-law, then a smoker whose frequency was throttled by living with my wife and me because we made them smoke outside, was able to notice how nasty her parents’ place smelled because they both smoked up the inside?