Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 25, 2021

I guess they allow smoking in this resort.

And a regular Republican lobbyist, so fudging the facts is business as usual.

Isn’t that like the Reaganic attempt to prove government doesn’t work and pushing the public not to use governmental services?

I flunked Philosophy myself. Made a mistake in a homework assignment and accidentally proved my professor didn’t exist.

I don’t know about philosophy, but in psychology they just call it cognitive dissonance. Coping with contradictory ideas or experiences is mentally stressful. It requires energy and effort to handle those seemingly opposite things that all seem true. Some people will inevitably resolve dissonance by blindly believing whatever they wanted to believe. Hence, Trump lickspittles …

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

25 years later, half a million dead, fifteen million sick, $9 billion in marketing money spent, each year.https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/index.htmhttps://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/economics/econ_facts/index.htm

All that fuss and still people smoke. They can have my cigar when they pry it from my cold dead, tobacco stained, stinking fingers. …graphic, no?

I’ve heard that Philosophy class exams are the hardest: The questions remain the same, but the answers change every year.

I have to chuckle when I remember how bars and restaurant howled when my state banned smoking? “OMG…our business will fail Government over reach!!, blah blah blah…”

If that were true, why do I still have to wait 45 minutes for a table at Olive Garden?

GBT left out the best part: they figured out how to produce propaganda that looked like “anti-smoking” to older people (I was going to say “adults” until I remembered their primary audience was legislators) and also made smoking look cooler to teenagers.

True.

The states spent lot of that money on other things.

What’s the massage here?

Helga is spending a lot of time massaging Mr. Butts filter tip.

Philosophy much like hindsight is usually more tragic than helpful.

Guess it’s relative to one’s reasoning.