Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for September 19, 2024

It’s the taste of death.

Show the macho man 30 years later

Come to whee the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country

Everytime I go to the doctor they ask me ‘Do you smoke?’ I say yes, once, when I was 10.

My best friend Steve and I shared one by the brook in the wood behind the village hall in the rural UK Midlands village I grew up in. We both threw up. I managed to hide it when I got home. But Steve didn’t and cracked under interrogation, and his (very small, the whole family were tiny, I had to reach down to turn the light switch in their home) mother called mine.

The moral of the story is trust no one. And don’t smoke.

Lick the adventure.

Anyone know who is pictured on the cover of Life here?

Ironic…. a smoking ad in LIFE magazine. They don’t call ‘em cancer sticks for nuthin’.

Opus, please don’t — and don’t believe everything you read or hear!

Any thoughts on who is on the cover of that Life magazine?

My mom was a smoker from the time she was about 15 until her late 30’s or early 40’s. Then in her early 80’s she got Lung Cancer that spread. When the doctor told her she had about a month to live and it was due to smoking she said, “But I quit over 40 yrs ago!!” He told her, “The damage was already done.” She died by drowning in her own body fluids because smoking has killed her lungs.

Tobacco in any of it’s forms Smoking, Vaping, Chewing, Pouches, Kills.

I made it through high school and four years in the Marines without smoking. As soon as I got out, I started. I quit on my 40th birthday. That was forty years ago.

Cigarette: A fire on one end, a fool on the other…

in the late 90’s I was out of work and was offered a job doing PR for a tobacco company. great money. I needed the work. I can proudly say, I turned it down.

I never smoked. My aunt’s cigarette smoke always seemed to blow right at me, and it was one of Massachusetts reasons why I didn’t take up the habit. My father’s story of his father dying from lung cancer and begging Dad to quit was another. He did stop in 1963, and lived until 2020.

One of the most powerful images I saw as a child was a display at the Museum of Science in Boston. It shows parts of both a healthy lung and a cancerous lung. It is a disturbing sight. The exhibit is still there and if you go to the museum with children, make sure they see it.

All the people in the skin disease, heart problems and overweight commercials are having more than me. Maybe I should catch something.

He’ll taste the adventure now, wheeze the adventure later

Who’s on the cover?

Taste the adventure? Opus, you’re a penguin, and you use a floaty ring to swim! I don’t think adventures are your thing.