Melodi
Disaster Cat
I don't blame the older generation (than us). I can remember as a child seeing commercials on how doctors recommended this or that cigarette, and I'm sorry to say that some of my age mates picked up the habit too. It was downright encouraged in the military,y if I recall. Smokers got breaks that other people didn't.
But I never understood why Nightwolf fought with it. I mean, he didn't smoke when we met but had when he was younger and then went back to it in middle age. He was always considerate of me and my allergy (which seemed to be to the additives, pipe smoke doesn't bother me as much), but it was still a nasty and increasingly expensive habit. As far as I could tell, all increasingly the pricing did was encourage more incredible amounts of low-income households spending going towards it, along with a vast black market coming in from Eastern Europe. In the US, it meant every smoker I knew was aware of the nearest Indian Reservation, and I used to pick stuff up there for him, not because I approved but because at least it was pure tobacco and cheap.
I don't think smoking alone created his early death from heart disease (it runs in his family), but it didn't help either. We know much more today than our Silent or Greatest Generation parents and grandparents did. This isn't something I would try to prohibit by law because that never works well. Still, I would be happy to see it die away over time, except in Native American ceremonies where it may be appropriate.
But I never understood why Nightwolf fought with it. I mean, he didn't smoke when we met but had when he was younger and then went back to it in middle age. He was always considerate of me and my allergy (which seemed to be to the additives, pipe smoke doesn't bother me as much), but it was still a nasty and increasingly expensive habit. As far as I could tell, all increasingly the pricing did was encourage more incredible amounts of low-income households spending going towards it, along with a vast black market coming in from Eastern Europe. In the US, it meant every smoker I knew was aware of the nearest Indian Reservation, and I used to pick stuff up there for him, not because I approved but because at least it was pure tobacco and cheap.
I don't think smoking alone created his early death from heart disease (it runs in his family), but it didn't help either. We know much more today than our Silent or Greatest Generation parents and grandparents did. This isn't something I would try to prohibit by law because that never works well. Still, I would be happy to see it die away over time, except in Native American ceremonies where it may be appropriate.
