Vaping, wow!

[mikester]

Understand. While waiting for them to wheel my aunt out of the hospital I noticed a pregnant patient on the bench outside with her oxygen tank smoking. Ya cant cure stupid.

Perspective is a funny thing. Are people who wear glasses just too stupid to see without them?

Smokers and drug users are addicted to their habits. Yes I think they are choosing bad behaviours. The root cause issue is they have a physical addiction problem - and their addictions are being exploited by unscrupulous people.

I think the real blame should be on the drug pushers - the businesses of tobacco and big pharma. These businesses have reaped billions of dollars by exploiting people's physiological problems. Yet none of these business people have ever done jail time for being the drug pushers they are. Somehow it's ok to sentence a parent to prison for bribing a corrupt education official so their kid can get into a good school, yet these corrupt education officials get to walk away without jail time. WTF?

Big pharma just announced they are filing for bankruptcy protection so they can avoid thousands of new lawsuits. The business owners cleaned out the bank vaults and are hiding/stashing billions of dollars in off shore accounts. None of them are facing jail time after consciously and knowingly peddling highly addictive drugs to poor saps with addiction problems. WTF?

You can't always blame only the victim. It's just easier to.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Vaping, smoking, consuming alcohol are all legal and are considered "condoned behavior" by society; is it stupid?Yes. And my horror equals yours when I realize my tax dollars have to pay for these idiots when their selfish behavior goes south via medical treatment. I can't turn the TV on without seeing a commercial for COPD treatment and carry around oxygen. Society as a whole should not be responsible for the lifestyle choices of an individual.

There's something about human nature that seeks an altered state of consciousness, and it goes back thousands of years. The Mayas and other aboriginals in this country used all kinds of drugs; the smoked them, chewed them and squirted them up their colon as an enema; purportedly to get a more immediate and intense reaction. I don't know the answer; I can't even define the problem...but IMO, legalizing this stuff for recreational purposes is NOT the way to go.

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[Industrial Toys]

Thoreau said that most people lives lives of quiet desperation. And those are probably the happier ones.

 

[teejk]

There's something about human nature that seeks an altered state of consciousness, and it goes back thousands of years. The Mayas and other aboriginals in this country used all kinds of drugs; the smoked them, chewed them and squirted them up their colon as an enema; purportedly to get a more immediate and intense reaction. I don't know the answer; I can't even define the problem...but IMO, legalizing this stuff for recreational purposes is NOT the way to go.

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The Madison police department has a blog on facebook describing the "highlights" (actually lowlights) from the previous day. Madison is not a particularly large city but the number of calls where Naloxone has to be administered for overdoses is alarming.

 

[Jstpssng]

Thourough said that most people lives lives of quiet desperation. And those are probably the happier ones.

Presumably you are referring to Henry David... You've got to love spell check.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Sorry, I thought it didn't look right. My mistake entirely. I don't have spell check on this new DELL computer as everything is either highly invasive or costly.

Cosmo or someone did a survey some years back. A majority of women would not marry the same man again. That alone must speak volumes of peoples level of happiness!

 

[muskieken]

My Mom never smoked much, only at parties and such when I was around five. I remember she used to use a cigarette holder. Reminds me of the vaping instruments.

She used to let us take puffs. Good to get the kiddies hooked early, because back then, cigarettes were still good for you, the doctors said so.

not to say I'm getting old but when I was a kid I remember buying the candy cigarettes at the store I'm playing like i was a adult.. Back when real men smoked Pall Malls or Camels.. how about green stamps....

 

[lilranch2001]

Thanks for posting this James!

 

[lilranch2001]

justpissing, I find your tendancy to be every ones spell checker very off putting!

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Thoreau said that most people lives lives of quiet desperation. And those are probably the happier ones.

Thoreau must have read Shelley... One of the few poems I have managed to memorize when I was about 19.

Full many a mind with radiant genius fraught
Is taught the dark scowl of misery to bear
How many a great soul has often sought
To stem the sad torrent of wild despair

T'would not be Earth's law's were given
To stand between Man, God, and Heaven
To teach him where to seek and truly find
That lasting comfort peace of mind

Percy Shelley
Stanmore 1815