New warnings on cigarette packages

[jfmarm81]

In the nanny state, smokers are the new lepers.

Just make them call out “unclean! unclean!” whenever they approach someone in public.

Edit: Also, will Turner Classic Movie network be banned from the air? In those old movies, everybody smokes.

Forget Turner movies…I was watching Die Hard 2 the other day and everyone was smoking in that airport…I can’t even remember the last time you could smoke indoors anywhere…

 

[Aramis]

Interesting idea, growing your own. Break out the Foxfire books! Personally, I would be more tempted to try my hand at distilling - another Southern pastime.

There are two ways to distill… hot and cold… the south is much noted for hot.

I’ve done cold, it’s dead simple, and produces a pretty tasty end result.

Take your alcoholic beverage, and cool it until it turns to slush. Pour through a strainer, discard the strained out ice (possibly by putting it in a glass and drinking in after it thaws). What went through the strainer is concentrated.

Repeat several times. You can get burnable alcohol this way, if your freezer is cold enough (-40°F should do to make whiskey-strength beverage. Each repeat needs the freezer colder to form the slush.

 

[ringil]

It’s hard to even imagine now how pervasive smoking once was. I remember, as a kid, seeing ashtrays on the attorneys’ tables in courtrooms and on the judges’ benches too. Probably they brought them in for individual jurors. They had ashtrays in doctors’ offices and in hospital rooms, and I remember a doctor lighting up in the examining room once when I was a kid.

Absolutely every business office had them.

Older barshop chairs still have built-in (but now unused) ashtrays in the arms of the chairs. Movie theaters in which people smoked were (I think) unusual, but I can remember being in one.

I don’t know how much smoking has declined over the last few decades, but accommodation sure has.

Oh the glory days!

 

[Graubo3]

I got Zipper-chest’s rookie card and there was a free pack of smokes with the purchase.
Have a nice weekend.

Peace, Graubo

 

[CatholicBoy1957]

how does a thread about smoking morph into one about abortion? Oh I know how!

OK, I’ve got to stay relevant to the news story. Here it is.

The thread morphs into abortion, because it shows that there is something terribly askew in the whole story of the need for these warnings about something being evil, because if the warnings were for that reason, we would have warnings about things that are genuinely intrinsically evil. But we don’t have such warnings, so why, then, do we have tobacco warnings?

It is another case of substitutionary morality, or, if you prefer, call it compensatory ethics. It makes the immoral feel better about themselves, as though you can’t call them bad people, because, hey, they’re against tobacco. They’re probably against eating animals, and lighting with incandescent lamps, also. They substitute false morality for genuine morality, substitute things that are morally neutral, so they can keep the sins that they really love, and assuage their guilt about doing those things.

Now that we’ve used abortion to morph the news story into some real meaning, how about if I suggest, in addition to warnings about abortion, that we include a warning on packages of condoms stating, “Gay sex can kill you”. Include some photos of sores and cancers from STDs. Naw, we can’t do that. Illicit sexual behaviors are our favorite sins. Warnings would remind us they’re sins.

 

[estesbob]

Now that we’ve used abortion to morph the news story into some real meaning, how about if I suggest, in addition to warnings about abortion, that we include a warning on packages of condoms stating, “Gay sex can kill you”. Include some photos of sores and cancers from STDs. Naw, we can’t do that. Illicit sexual behaviors are our favorite sins. Warnings would remind us they’re sins.

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William Buckley suggested that the solution to the AIDS problem was to tattoo on the lower back of every man who had AIDS the quote from Dante’ Inferno “abandon hope all ye who enter here”

 

[Ridgerunner]

OK, I’ve got to stay relevant to the news story. Here it is.

The thread morphs into abortion, because it shows that there is something terribly askew in the whole story of the need for these warnings about something being evil, because if the warnings were for that reason, we would have warnings about things that are genuinely intrinsically evil. But we don’t have such warnings, so why, then, do we have tobacco warnings?

It is another case of substitutionary morality, or, if you prefer, call it compensatory ethics. It makes the immoral feel better about themselves, as though you can’t call them bad people, because, hey, they’re against tobacco. They’re probably against eating animals, and lighting with incandescent lamps, also. They substitute false morality for genuine morality, substitute things that are morally neutral, so they can keep the sins that they really love, and assuage their guilt about doing those things.

Now that we’ve used abortion to morph the news story into some real meaning, how about if I suggest, in addition to warnings about abortion, that we include a warning on packages of condoms stating, “Gay sex can kill you”. Include some photos of sores and cancers from STDs. Naw, we can’t do that. Illicit sexual behaviors are our favorite sins. Warnings would remind us they’re sins.

I’m inclined to agree with your assessment. I have sometimes thought Puritanism is alive and well even in our century; it’s just that the unforgiveable sins have changed. Fornication is now regarded as a good. Smoking, on the other hand, is one of the ultimate evils. But regardless of the targeted behavior, many in this society are just as righteous and boorish about the conduct of others as the Puritans were.