I love to smoke so leave me alone
To The Editor:
When I started smoking in 1950, cigarettes were 25 cents a pack. I couldn’t afford them, so I bought a 5 cents pack of cigarette papers and rolled my own using Prince Albert in a can that my father bought for his pipe. Now, here it is 56 years later, andonce again I can’t afford a pack of cigarettes, thanks to the Democrats and their taxes. Dad is no longer with us, so I have to buy my own Prince Albert. My how things have changed !
I have been a smoker for 56 years. I do not smoke because some tobacco company put out an advertisement for their product making it look sophisticated and rugged.
I smoke because I want too, because I enjoy smoking !
I have never went to a doctor because smoking made me sick in my 70 years of life. I have been to a doctor for back problems, annual check ups, flu shots, and a vasectomy. I do anything I want to do, (anything any 70-year- old should do), play golf, fish, swim, and have sex, when I can get my 67-year old wife, who doesn’t smoke, in the mood.
This is not an attempt to get others to smoke. I could care less if you do or don’t smoke.
It is an attempt to get you non-smokers to quit discriminating against me and to get off my back. I do not stand around and blow smoke in the face of others, I do not go to a restaurant to smoke, I go there to eat, and when I leave there, I enjoy a smoke outside.
I do not carry a cloud of smoke around my head running off my fellow workers. I do not flip my cigarette butts out my car window. You go on about second hand smoke, what about second hand drinking?A person goes to a bar, has four or five drinks, gets in a car and hits some-one head-on.
Smoking is not for every-one, just as drinking is not for ever-one. So, go ahead and look down your nose at me, but don’t blame me for all the $6.32 billion you say is health care cost related to my”deadly” habit. I will just pour me a fresh cup of coffee, and light up.
Amon Louis Kerns
Lehigh Acres
I love to smoke so leave me alone
To The Editor:
When I started smoking in 1950, cigarettes were 25 cents a pack. I couldn’t afford them, so I bought a 5 cents pack of cigarette papers and rolled my own using Prince Albert in a can that my father bought for his pipe. Now, here it is 56 years later, andonce again I can’t afford a pack of cigarettes, thanks to the Democrats and their taxes. Dad is no longer with us, so I have to buy my own Prince Albert. My how things have changed !
I have been a smoker for 56 years. I do not smoke because some tobacco company put out an advertisement for their product making it look sophisticated and rugged.
I smoke because I want too, because I enjoy smoking !
I have never went to a doctor because smoking made me sick in my 70 years of life. I have been to a doctor for back problems, annual check ups, flu shots, and a vasectomy. I do anything I want to do, (anything any 70-year- old should do), play golf, fish, swim, and have sex, when I can get my 67-year old wife, who doesn’t smoke, in the mood.
This is not an attempt to get others to smoke. I could care less if you do or don’t smoke.
It is an attempt to get you non-smokers to quit discriminating against me and to get off my back. I do not stand around and blow smoke in the face of others, I do not go to a restaurant to smoke, I go there to eat, and when I leave there, I enjoy a smoke outside.
I do not carry a cloud of smoke around my head running off my fellow workers. I do not flip my cigarette butts out my car window. You go on about second hand smoke, what about second hand drinking?A person goes to a bar, has four or five drinks, gets in a car and hits some-one head-on.
Smoking is not for every-one, just as drinking is not for ever-one. So, go ahead and look down your nose at me, but don’t blame me for all the $6.32 billion you say is health care cost related to my”deadly” habit. I will just pour me a fresh cup of coffee, and light up.
Amon Louis Kerns
Lehigh Acres
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