Smoke or Beat Your Wife

 

<– Who knows what he might do if the didn’t have this smoke!

I really enjoy the commercials broadcast by The Sunny Side of Truth. You know the  commercials about cigarette smoking and how Big Tobacco lies to consumers and says some of the most absurd things imaginable. They are  very informative and quite entertaining. With little eye catchers on the website like In 2001, 250 babies died of SIDS from inhaling secondhand smoke,    BUT think of all the babies that live!

My favorite Sunny Side of Truth commercial of all is this Smoke or Beat Your Wife one that has been airing recently.

 

 If you smoke you might take your life

 

   But if you don’t you might beat your wife

How ridiculous is that notion. I can see a husband standing there now contemplating..hmmm lung cancer…assault charge…cancer…jail time..jail time..cancer…hmmm

Hopefully no one has had to place those two actions on a balance in their life to see which weighed out best for them.

Being that I have never been a cigarette smoker, I can’t try to explain what makes a person start or continue smoking cigarettes, but I will say that from what I have seen, trying to stop is one heck of an ordeal. I have seen people who try everything from the Nicotine patches, to stopping smoking by adding on another habit, to going cold turkey. Some of them have been successful, others begin the roller coaster ride of wanting to stop smoking but not being able to do so.

On the website I found the following information

• Nicotine is absorbed into the bloodstream more slowly with smokeless tobacco than with cigarettes, but it continues to be absorbed more even after tobacco has been removed from the mouth.
• Tobacco is expected to kill 1 billion people this century. That’s 10 times the toll it took in the 20th century.
• Big Tobacco labels their cigarettes with things like light, ultra-light and low-tar even though they can be as deadly and addictive as regular cigarettes.
• In 2002, U.S. consumers spent about $88.2 billion on tobacco products

After visiting The Sunny Side of Truth website and just thinking generally about smoking, I began to wonder how people who actually have the habit feel when they are asked to not smoke in someone’s home, or when they have to put a cigarette out because most places are smoke now smoke free? Do they feel violated..even though the truth is that they violate non smokers every time we are forced to choke down their secondhand smoke?

Even though cigarette smoking is not illegal isn’t it still sorta, kinda a crime, being that a smoker’s habit forces other people to unwillingly smoke which may lead to that innocent person getting cancer or some other respiratory disease? That may sound weird, but when you are in the proximity of someone who is enjoying their smoke, you are inhaling a cigarette that you aren’t even smoking. We have all at some point in time been around someone who was puffing and enjoying and we were standing as far as we could from them, yet we could still smell the fumes of their cigarette. Is that fair?

No Comment

Yes I love my children, yes it is my duty to protect them and love them unconditionally. Every parent should feel that unconditional love and duty of protection for their children, however, if put in a situation where they had committed a heinous crime or done something disrespectful or admittedly wrong my answer to the press would be “No comment.”

 I unlike the mother of William Balfour, whose son is a person of interest in the murders of the family members of Jennifer Hudson, would not demand that my son is innocent and that he has an alibi. And I be damned if I would even throw in that the media is freely spewing negativity about my son, but had yet to mention that he got his GED while incarcerated. 

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Whoop de damn doo, your son obtained his GED while incarcerated for robbing innocent people, carjacking and oh let’s not forget that little thing that happened where he attempted to murder someone. Let’s not forget that a seven year old INNOCENT child was savagely murdered along with two adults. Let’s not forget that your son was being held because he may have information about the murders. Let’s not forget that the Hudson family is grieving and their tragedy and grief is being broadcast all over the nation.

Michele Davis-Balfour all you should feel the need to say to any news reporter, talk show host or anyone else requesting information about this crime is “No Comment”.  Your defense of your son is inconsiderate and embarrassing.

If William Balfour is found to have no ties to these murders that would be great news for his family. But to make any kind of comment in your son’s defense while the Hudson family is in mourning is horrid Michele Davis-Balfour…just horrid.

People need to discontinue the excuse making for murderers, racists, pathological liars, child molesters, irresponsible idiots and the other laundry list of misfits. Sure you may love them, and sure you may think they won’t harm a fly, but if that is the case why does their record show differently? Why have they been convicted of similar or in some cases identical crimes if they are harmless?  Why is it that everyone is out to get your precious little baby who has not and would not do anything harmful to anyone (at least that you know of).

When placed in a situation where you only know the half, don’t try to tell the whole because you make yourself look like a fool and most times your precious baby is as wrong as two left shoes.

Just say “No Comment”