-Smoking from Planck's Constant Archives

Posted on February 8, 2010 11:42 AM

What business is it of mine what you do during pregnancy? Hey, if you are a pregnant whiskey-swilling. drug-addled, cigar-smoking fat pig in the wilderness of British Columbia and your child will never come to America and drain our resources and fill our prisons, then I say, go at it, have a dozen little retarded social misfits, I don't care.

Read the Rest: Fatties or Addicts Should Not have Babies

Posted on February 4, 2010 03:34 PM

When the only item of clothing on your upper body is a levitating pink mesh cap at 52 degree tilt, you're a huge sack of existential douchebaggery

When the human species lived in caves there were very few rules of etiquette. You could let loose a flaming fart, sneeze directly into your cavemate's face, pick cooties out of your hair, or even extricate a large booger from your nose and pop it into your mouth; no one would complain.

Read the Rest: 13 Violations of Public Etiquette

Posted on September 15, 2008 02:07 PM

I went to Catholic school for the fourth grade and it was then that I made my Communion (yes I am an atheist Jew who made Communion). I tried to get out of it by reminding my teacher, Sister Melody, that I was Jewish; I still had to go, according to her, "Don't worry - it's good for you." Earlier in the year I tried the same tactic to get out of Catechism classes and attending mass.

Read the Rest: First Confession

Posted on April 24, 2008 01:15 PM

My company will not hire smokers and I mean not just smoking on the job, I mean even if they smoke while on vacation in DisneyWorld (although smoking there is getting harder to do) or at home. I believe the government has no right to interfere in your private life, except... if you abuse your wife, children, or even your own body or property if it harms others.

Read the Rest: Whirlpool: Fired for Lying About Smoking Habit

Posted on April 6, 2007 03:14 PM

Circumcised males are less likely than their uncircumcised peers to acquire a sexually transmitted infection, the findings of a 25-year study suggest.

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Posted on February 12, 2007 04:01 PM

Since the poor and less educated have the highest prevalence of smokers and obese among them, the very people who were supposed to be most in need of health services will end up not getting them.

Read the Rest: UK Health Services: No to Smokers and Fatties

Posted on February 1, 2007 06:43 PM

French smokers say c’est la vie to ban, PARIS - A ban on smoking in public spaces came into effect Thursday, a change that may alter the image of a country defined in part by its smoky cafes and cigarette-puffing intellectuals.

Read the Rest: Paris may be Burning but it ain`t Smoking

Posted on July 11, 2006 12:11 PM

Before World War Two, there were many in America that did not see the coming threat of Nazi Germany. Appeasement was, of course, legal. If the appeasers had won control of Congress would we all be speaking German now? Probably. Were they a threat to the survival of our country? Obviously in hindsight yes. And yes that's a Dr. Seuss cartoon.

Read the Rest: Legal but Dangerous

Posted on March 24, 2006 07:43 PM

We should ban smoking on Cruises. A fire broke out aboard the cruise ship Star Princess Thursday as it sailed through the Caribbean sea, leaving one passenger dead and 11 others injured.

Read the Rest: Star Princess burns - time to ban smoking on cruise ships

Posted on February 14, 2006 02:43 PM

I'm spreading the word. The Wheatsheaf is a very cute 15th century thatched-roof pub in Southfleet (just outside Longfield). I highly recommend it. I hear their ploughman's lunch is HUGE.

Now one will always hear the fatuous argument that if you don't like being urinated on you should work someplace else. That if you don't like yellow drops of pee splattering into your soup, well go to a restaurant that has a no-urinating policy. It certainly is easy to predict that in another few years parents with young children at home will not be permitted to smoke. Hopefully this will happen soon.

Read the Rest: No more puffs with your pint in England

Posted on January 26, 2006 11:25 PM

A study (in December 2005) has shown that in New Jersey (which has yet to start the ban), bars and restaurants had more than nine times the levels of indoor air pollution compared with those in neighboring New York City, which had banned smoking in those establishments.

Read the Rest: Smoking Bans Spread - The Golomb Effect

Posted on January 25, 2006 11:31 PM

I don't care if you live in Mongolia and smoke, as long as you don't drive and smoke on the same highway as I am on, or smoke in the same restaurant as I eat in, or smoke in the same building I am in. Notwithstanding what I just said, I not only believe you have a right to smoke wherever you want, I also believe you have a right to piss wherever you like, as long as it is not anywhere near me.

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Posted on January 20, 2006 08:03 PM

What can I say? She's French and they are so obnoxious about smoking. The Germans certainly aren't much better.

Read the Rest: Smokers can`t stop even if their lives depend on it

Posted on January 17, 2006 04:19 PM

I do not drink. But I do have visitors from Europe and Asia coming to visit me every few weeks. I schedule those meetings in New York City where I can have a glass of wine or even a beer without choking.