Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for January 28, 2012

Further proof smoking is nasty, disgusting, and harmful.

You could put lung tissue on the box and it would not stop anyone from smoking.Been there,done that.

Warnings fail with rebels, idiots, and the already hooked.

Just wondering….will e-cigerettes cause e-cancer? What next? Virtual drug dealers peddling e-joints and e-crack? Somebody stop me….

Oh, he can still make it up the hill. It’ll just take him two trips.

There are other things to smoke other than tobacco. Ham, sausage, …

Nobody gets out alive.

What I could not understand was the workers at the Nursing Home where my husband died from lung disease taking their breaks outside to puff away. I asked one “Why?” She answered “we all die from something.” Stupid!

Poor stupid wolf has COPD.Trust me, I know.

Take care of your lungs. Stop smoking. I don’t smoke but I have asthma. You need your lungs.

I started smoking as a kid because my boring old parents DIDN’T. I managed to stop 23 years ago, BTW. I have an oldest kid who smokes, a middle kid who hates it, and a youngest who used to sneak ‘em in her early teens, but hasn’t picked one up since then.

I once asked the oldest — the only one who actually grew up with smoking parents — why she, or any children of smokers, smoke. After all, shouldn’t you rebel against something?

Her answer was enlightening. “Well, Mom — even SMOKERS don’t want their KIDS to smoke!”

Pigs worldwide are now glad that wolves smoke.

My hubby died at 79, a long life by all accounts. He loved to hike, bird watch, travel in the RV. But the last 5 years all that was impossible, and he sat around unhappy that he had caused his last years to be something less than he had hoped. You start with O2 at night, then during naps, then 24 hours a day. But as a teenager, he was really cool. He did live 20 years after he quit smoking. There is more to dread than cancer.

Smoking doesn’t always “take the wind out of you” . When I was on Active Duty, I smoked and still ran 3 miles every day. I never did make it up to smoking a pack a day tho. I’ve quit for the last 2 years.

I know some peers who have sat through those ‘health’ classes and have gotten amazing scores on those ‘say no! to drugs’ tests, and then I see them after school or at parties smoking.

My sister quit smoking not long ago, but not just for her health. She said the main reason because it was just too expensive. She’s still addicted to Pepsi but that won’t kill you as fast as cigarettes will.