For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 07, 2013

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 11 years ago

    Phil, you scoundrel! (Glad to see he got yesterday’s bubble gum off his ’stache.)

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    alviebird  about 11 years ago

    I can tell you, from personal experience, that it can be much easier to forgo lighting up when you know you could. Not having access to it can make one panic.

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    alviebird  about 11 years ago

    In fact, I carried an unopened pack in my shirt pocket for some time. And I kept an unopened carton in my bedroom for several months. (Until I found myself at a New Year’s party, just up the street from my house, where everyone ran out.)

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    alviebird  about 11 years ago

    Boy, was I suddenly popular.

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    pelican47  about 11 years ago

    Back in the 70’s there was an obsure brand of cigarettes with the brand name “CANCER” that I think was made in Oregon. The pack was black and white.

    I was never a smoker, but took packs of those to parties as a conversation gimmick. They told me they were similar to Marlborough.

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    Poollady  about 11 years ago

    Way to go Georgia!!

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    thirdguy  about 11 years ago

    Phil is quite the drama queen!

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    tuslog64  about 11 years ago

    I was very lucky when young – everyone that smoked were always saying they wished they could quit.I decided best thing to do was not to start.(I read somewhere that if one does not smoke until age 30 they will not become addicted. Comments?)

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    JanLC  about 11 years ago

    I didn’t smoke much, but leaving my cigarettes inside a small cedar box for a couple of months “flavored” them enough to make me quit on the spot.

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    tlynnch  about 11 years ago

    Always have emergency cigs when you’re quitting. Then you don’t buy a pack and feel the need to finish them before you quit again. Always knowing that you could have one if you wanted gives you freedom. Both times I quit I had a partial pack for a couple of years. Last cig was Dec 4th 1998

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    androscoggin  about 11 years ago

    My doctor has a few packs of cigarettes on the bookshelves in her office. When I asked about them, she said they were from patients who had quit smoking!

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    danlarios  about 11 years ago

    get real fool

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    JP Steve Premium Member about 11 years ago

    When I found an old pack behind the fridge shortly after I’d quit, I sunk it in a bucket of water rather than chance the temptation! I never smoked again except for the pack-a-night every night in my dreams!

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    alviebird  about 11 years ago

    It sounds to me like someone has appropriated one idea to support their own. A young person’s brain is supposedly still being hardwired. The specious argument goes like this: A young person’s brain would be hardwired into that addiction, while an older one would be a little more resistant.

    Hokum.

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    K M  about 11 years ago

    I thought he was a trumpeter. This is the first mention of his guitar I’ve ever read in this strip.

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    bluffwood  about 11 years ago

    Winstons were never sold in Canada

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    USN1977  about 11 years ago

    It did not have a panel where Phil says “Hey Georgia, here are the Winstons”Georgia saying that Phil had hidden a pack of cigarettes implies she found out he was stockpiling tobacco with the idea she would not know.

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    CalLadyQED  about 11 years ago

    Many professional musicians have a second (or third or fourth etc.) instrument. Piano and organ. Flute and piccolo. Voice and guitar. And so on.

    I don’t think that “the weed” is a Canadian thing. I think it’s a really, really old term for tobacco. I seem to remember some weird term like that from a history class.

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