SMOKING

Well, well, well - you may as well ignore the rest of this web page.
On the 26th May 2008 I was visiting a heart doc - and he said
"You're having a heart attack right now"
 so off we go downstairs and they
put a STENT into one of my heart's arteries.

I gave up smoking right there and then
(after 45 years)
and haven't smoked since.

All non-smokers are requested to leave the room by clicking on the X box
top right of your screen.

The sixties - nineteen sixties that is,
we were seduced into smoking.
Adverts of DUDE John Wayne smoking Lexington forced upon us.
I can still recall the hippy background tune of Peter Stuyvesant on the skiing slopes.
TEXAN never advertised - they didn't have to. They had Barry Reid.
St. Mauritz - the list goes on and on.
Oooops let's not forget the glitz of Dunhill here.

Now America of all places (whose gas-guzzlers have blown the ozone layer moer-toe)
has decided to ban smoking in public places.
Bejasus their fire-power in Iraq has caused ANOTHER moerse ozone-layer hole.
Their Presidents pomp in the White House !
What a shabby bunch.

AND THE MAN IN THE STREET CAN'T LIGHT UP ?????????????????

They say second-hand smoke can kill you.
Phew, us smokers are then very lucky getting our smoke FIRST HAND.

If I think (sadly) of the friends that I have lost to cancer over the last five years,
NOT ONE was a smoker.
To the contrary, amongst them were extremely fit athletes.

Reflectively I have just lit another Gauloises.

I'm actually not sure why I am writing this page, because I know that
non-smokers will continue reading it. Hmmm interesting deduction.

Anycase, <puff> as I was saying <cough> it's good to see the
FERRARI cars in China sporting the MARLBORO signage
in full frontal nudity.

If I am on your turf, then naturally I shall not smoke and thus pollute
that area. I'll probably go outside every now and then and
puff away. That's good manners.

On my turf however,
at the outset, may I say that if my smoking offends you, then
please leave the room. I offer no apology.
The day that they consider banning farting in public
is the day that I may reconsider my decision.

Have a nice day.