Great Quote by Mark Twain on Anti-Smoking Movement of the 19th Century

[gloucesterman]

I don't mind that there are folks that choose not to smoke or drink. I just wish they didn't feel compelled to force their decision on me! As Twain suggested, if you want to be miserable please do so in silence. I know the costs and what risks are involved and have chosen to accept both. MYOB!!!!

 

[okiescout]

MYOB!!!!
+1 Gloucesterman. It all comes under the heading of political correctness. It is ever so much fun to tell someone else what they ain't doin right.

 

[tennsmoker]

+1 Okiescout. Twain also said something along the lines of, "I try never to smoke more than one cigar at a time." Apologies for botching the quote, but it went close to that.
I love Twain. On his 70th birthday celebration he also said he had done things in his life that would kill most mortals.

 

[phred]

It seems to me the push against smoking coincided with the entrance of insurance into the health care business.

Well, that is when it gained some traction in the modern age, but there has been an active anti-smoking movement since about 10 minutes after the first European lit up back on home turf... See King James' "Counterblast to Tobacco" (yes, that King James), written in 1604.

 

[jpmcwjr]

phred- Is there a link in your post? Or do I have to effin' google it?

 

[ltstone]

I'm not trying to get all spiritual here I just like to quote scripture to real life application and I think this applies here:
Colossians 2:20-23King James Version (KJV)
20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines of MEN?
23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

 

[erichbaumer]

One of his best pieces. Which given my sig is probably self-serving. Regardless, Twain is easily one of the greatest American writers ever, in multiple disciplines.