Why did we ever stop indulging?
Smoking is far out!
Sunday November 16, 2008
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Wow. You can never go broke underestimating the ability of people to perceive sarcasm.
Agreed. And smoking is very glamourous.
Great ad, though.
Geez. Such angst. I am enjoying some nice, carefully rubbed out pressed cut Virginia tobacco from a century-old small company in an artisanally crafted Italian pipe.
I propose my lack of angst has a relationship to that.
This deserves mentioning, as largely lost in these types of conversations is how pleasurable smoking can be. Sure, it's dangerous. So's downhill skiing. What's your point?
karlub, let's start a club. I expect we'll fail, because a fad can never follow closely on something similar. Cigars are too recent in most people's memory.
As to Rod's point, I have on my desk a catalog from JR Cigar, which I received three weeks ago. It is too beautiful to throw away with the other junk mail. Even though I've no intention of ordering any cigars, I thumb through it on occasion. The exquisite imagery takes me for a flight of fancy into a lifestyle I am too parsimonious to lead.
Don't all the vices market themselves that way?
Sounds good to me, Michael. We'll have to avoid Michelle from the woodburning stove thread, though. She doesn't even like the smell of outdoor woodsmoke on a brisk winter day.
That sort of thing baffles me, but as the English say: It takes all kinds to make a world. And far be it for me to willingly impringe on such delicate sinuses.
You know, I guess I never smoked because I never really got sucked in by the glamour. I guess Marlene Dietrich couldn't compete with the image of my stepmother digging through ashtrays looking for long butts when stuck in the 'burbs without a car, and ran out of smokes.
Or maybe it was that guy we visited to sing Christmas carols to who'd have to take breaks on his own balcony (since smoking near an oxygen tent is a /bad/ thing) to puff on cigarettes through that hole in his neck.
Yeah, kinda loses its glamour right about then.
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