Joe Heller for May 03, 2018

Pushers gotta push

I do wonder who most of the ultimate corporate owners of the companies that make “Electronic Cigarettes” and their fluids REALLY are…hummm….trace the paper trails, folks.

And the pills that mother gives you don’t do anything at all.

Bitch all you want. The bottom line is that vaping eliminates the hundreds of toxic chemicals found in burning tobacco.

Yes, they still get their nicotine, but the carcinogens are gone. That has to be worth something.

The State of Washington is the best pot dealer I’ve ever had.

Tobacco companies are still getting subsidies from taxpayers.

There is a loophole in child labor laws for agriculture that was intended to apply to the children that work on the family farm. This was expanded to allow non-family children to work on farms too. The really awful thing is that child labor is allowed on tobacco farms so kids too young to smoke can just absorb the poison right through their skin and breathe in the plant fumes directly.

The worst part is it’s working.

Nicotine is as, if not MORE, addictive than heroin and other opiates. Cannabis, especially the CBD factor, are not addictive, but excellent medicine, which nicotine is not. It also is typical of our politics that nicotine ads are banned, huge amounts spent to combat tobacco use, smoking or chew, while Tobacco remains one of our most highly subsidised farm products. Hmm, the NRA pushes guns about the same way.

I smoked for 25 years. I smoked 3 packs of Camel non-filtered a day. I quit 34 years ago. Were it not for the health problems of smoking, I’d SPEED to the closest store to buy a carton!