Well seeing I am bored out of my mind and tired of editing websites today, I am going to add something.
I am not putting anyone down, your habits are yours –I do agree with Cheri in some respects but I do expect something called civility to take place and usually happens.
I grew up with Cigar, Cigarette and Pipe smokers, of all of these I feel I had to be around anyone with a tobacco habit let it be a pipe smoker, cigars being a second – except those d**n little Italian black cigars – God they stunk worst than well.... a skunk. I didn’t include chewers because I worked with a few and they were disgusting individuals to begin with and made that habit even more disgusting to the point of vomiting.
But I digress; the problem is that my preferred groups to be around are looked upon as the ‘stinky’ groups by the other group and the public.
With the public acting all up in arms about the hazards of the habit, they seem to blame and point fingers at the companies who produced the products in the first place, which is wrong. My Ma died of lung cancer and smoked from 1952 to 1997, she could not blame a company that produced the product – as she said it was her own choice. At the same time we had a family friend die of the same type of cancer at the same time and never really were exposed as my Ma was but still had the same thing. Go figure?
But public health has more to worry about than second hand smoke, going a little off topic here. Leo mentioned kids, well if you want to protect your kids, live in the country, make them do physical activities everyday and feed them food with no additive or preservatives – that is protecting them. I have a lot of reasons to be critical with this subject, watching parents b**ch about one thing and stuffing their kids mouth with a bottle of soda. Well I was privy to a private study done on the effects of food intake, ADD, Asthma and other problems kids have and it is amazing that things like a well planned and balanced diet with exercise and no or very limited use of chemicals in the diet keep kids rather healthy and smart. To back this up, got a friend whose daughter has a serious asthma problem, almost died several times, can’t do any activities in school and had to be limited to the places she went. She was prone to the serious attacks once a month sometimes as many as three a month, it seemed like anything triggered her attacks. I suggested to the mother that she change her daughter’s diet to a low carb, primarily vegetable (salads) diet with absolutely no soda, chips (junk food) and no candy and not to buy the food at Kroger, Piggly Wiggly or teeters – go to an organic place. The kid was willing to try anything, so off the whole foods they went. After two months on the diet she stopped having the attacks and started to exercise. Today at 16 she has had one attack in four years; she is a cheerleader, track ‘star’ and wants to learn how to fly. Oh all the doctors told her when she was 11 (this is when she started her diet) that the possibilities of her leading a normal life were slim at best and she needs to get used to it.
Any way food for thought (pun intended) – I could explain about why the insurance companies use this reasoning to raise rates but I think I said enough, got to make a salad.
