Photo by Bill Stokes
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper put in his time as a slave to the nicotine murderers with a cigarette addiction into his midlife when he managed to shake it just to show cigarette-smoking son Larry that it could be done. Larry quit cigarettes too at that time, but cigars got him later for a while and he became an insufferable stogie snob.
Son Mike still wrestles with the cigarette monster and curses the stranglehold it has on him especially at today’s prices and considering its undeniable health threat. Sons Rick and Scott have also had their nicotine struggles with mixed results.
It has recently come to the attention of the keeper that a number of his male grandsons are hooked on tobacco in the form of the little pouches that they tuck in their cheek and nobody knows about them since there is none of the offensive spitting that goes with “chewing” tobacco.
But there is the hook, the sneaky, sophisticated nicotine hook from the most unconscionable marketers money can buy and the packet- using grandsons play the game in spite of the fact that they are smarter than that.
One in five adults worldwide uses tobacco in some form. It is the leading cause of health issues and DEATH, and kids are falling to the nicotine promotion’s new formats by the millions. Artificial Stupidity reigns.
So, here’s the deal, boys. The old man says you clan members do enough dumb things without throwing money to tobacco billionaires just so you can continue to suck your nicotine-pouch thumbs.
Cut it out! Stop this utter nonsense right now and buy the woman in your life some flowers!
