when we look at tobacco use over centuries and cultures, smoking has been considered, far more often, a universal gift.
Is Smoking a Universal Vice?
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Time is a bandit that steals fond memories.
But I lived during a time when I had a car and a famous grandmother who’d been a drover of wagons from Weaubleau Station to Ha Ha Tonka, and I had the good sense to ask my girlfriend to go with me driving Ma Agee.
On those long lost days I’d pick up my girl and drive to Hermatige where she’d be waiting, in full make up and dressed to impress.
I’d explain ahead of time she loved tobacco but only if, it was kept a secret.
My girl made it a point to buy an extra package of Virginia Slims long menthol to share with her.
Another thing I’d prepare my girl for is that under no circumstances did Ma Agee ever ride up front, she was chauffeured sitting in the back.
By the end of the first roadside excursion, often the old Christian Church at Weableau where her Eric graduated college in 1901, my girl would ride back there with her so they could visit better.
No boy ever had a better wingman than I had in Ma Agee, in a smoke filled car on the road to Ha Ha Tonka.
The wind, mussed her hair.
But I lived during a time when I had a car and a famous grandmother who’d been a drover of wagons from Weaubleau Station to Ha Ha Tonka, and I had the good sense to ask my girlfriend to go with me driving Ma Agee.
On those long lost days I’d pick up my girl and drive to Hermatige where she’d be waiting, in full make up and dressed to impress.
I’d explain ahead of time she loved tobacco but only if, it was kept a secret.
My girl made it a point to buy an extra package of Virginia Slims long menthol to share with her.
Another thing I’d prepare my girl for is that under no circumstances did Ma Agee ever ride up front, she was chauffeured sitting in the back.
By the end of the first roadside excursion, often the old Christian Church at Weableau where her Eric graduated college in 1901, my girl would ride back there with her so they could visit better.
No boy ever had a better wingman than I had in Ma Agee, in a smoke filled car on the road to Ha Ha Tonka.
The wind, mussed her hair.
Of course it is a vice. That's what makes it useful. A man without a vice is not a man to be trusted, and as far as vices themselves are concerned, one can do far worse than either the leaf or the grain.
All people are exactly the same all over the world and since we lived in caves.
We seek pleasure and avoid pain, and we can look at our elders and realize the same will happen to us.
In our dim past somebody took some fermented grain and drank it and got drunk. Before long they were raising the best kind of grain to make beer.
And over in the American continent somebody tried smoking tobacco and said oh me, oh my I want more of that plant.
All work and no vices makes a man like the beasts of the field, not a man with a soul that needs salved.
You've obviously never met my ex wife.
Oh yeah baby, this is the United States that I love. I don't know if it is a vice, for me it is simply living on a planet where we have had to experience these discoveries. I do sports for health and not for aesthetics and I am not happy to reach 120 years old, and talking with an intelligent chip in my balls, to communicate with living beings.
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I can't express well with the translator. But I loved Dolly Parton's music video, that's the America I always like to see and remember, from old Europe. I'm not a fan of eating lettuce juices and forest seeds to last 50 more years of life. This is simply what we have, either you enjoy it or you are a body cult mummy. Physical deterioration is inevitable, I am sure there will come a day when humanity will be just like in the Blade Runner movie, a mixture of synthetic beings drinking liquids through the anus with a titanium straw.
Attitudes to tobacco (like many things) differ in the city vs in the countryside.
Generally in rural areas you can do as you please more. And its not just because theres the space to do so. People are just.. better
Generally in rural areas you can do as you please more. And its not just because theres the space to do so. People are just.. better
I'm glad this got bumped...I missed these the first time. Two more of your spontaneous missives that are true gems.
With all this talk about vices being ok, I think I'll start drinking my own bath water again.... 
Will the intelligent chip in my balls automatically swap out the titanium straw with a clean, Cumberland stem when I want to smoke? Maybe a P-lip will provide cooler smoke?
Careful where you do that. You might get hit with indecent exposure. People already get odd enough glances when smoking in public.
It will redefine clenching when it comes to pipe smoking.Careful where you do that. You might get hit with indecent exposure. People already get odd enough glances when smoking in public.
It's using a dangerous and addictive plant to distract yourself for some time. If that isn't a vice, I don't know what is.
