[quote user="Johnna R"] I agree dawg, it is the only vice i have left as well... [/quote] Yeah, ain't it a drag, JR? I guess this calls for a bowl of ice cream right about now.

[quote user="oneluckytexan"] I was once told to never trust a man without a vice................... You have to have at least one Dawg! OLT [/quote] Well, I woulda kept all of mine, but couldn't talk 'em out of leaving. Not very nice of 'em in my opinion, considering the loving attention I had given 'em all those years. Sorry

[quote user="Johnna R"] [quote user="old dawg"] [quote user="Johnna R"] Better add food to that list....it is one of those "acceptable" addictions...I should know...been there doing that! [/quote] Preacher, you done stopped preachin' now, and started meddlin'. [/quote] hahahhahahahahahahahahahahaa!!! I

[quote user="Johnna R"] Better add food to that list....it is one of those "acceptable" addictions...I should know...been there doing that! [/quote] Preacher, you done stopped preachin' now, and started meddlin'.

Yeah, you guys are right. Two of arguably the most toxic and dangerous addictive substances on earth, alcohol and tobacco, are perfectly legal, and socially acceptable, while the law and the public worry and gnash their teeth about diddly squat things. But, it's like you said, Drew.......follow the money.

[quote user="drewK"] Just be done with it... outlaw it!! Make it illegal....... ehh..... That ain't gonna happen. Follow the money...... the money..... the money..... [/quote] 'zactly.

Yeah, Mel, that's the way it works sometimes. I guess we all, smokers and ex-smokers, have a story of how we got conned into the habit. Maybe some of us don't think of it that way exactly, but that's really what happened to every last one of us. We got conned into it, one way or another, and then we almost all of us discovered after time

[quote user="Johnna R"] I have heard of quite a few people quitting because they can no longer afford it. The prices have gotten so outrageous, it is either food for the kids or cigarettes...and most will go with taking care of the kids first... [/quote] Yeah, I do think that more and more thinking people who have gained some maturity are

[quote user="69 Chevy"] "we should never stop working to rid ourselves of the beast. " We seem to be headed in the right direction. It is a dying habit! [/quote] Yeah, we still have a long way to go, but you only have to look back a few years to see that progress has been made. However, the disturbing thing is that apparently the

[quote user="69 Chevy"] If you choose to smoke that is your problem. If you choose to smoke in public it is everyone’s problem. Just tweak the ordinance! [/quote] Yeah, you're right, Chevy. I was a lifelong heavy smoker when I quit, coming up on thirty years ago this next New Years Eve, so I can still empathize with the folks who