Meh. Some cigars are okay. Some are pretty great. Most are pretty shitty. I smoke, maybe, a few cigars a year, on some special occasion or another, if there is one. But, to me some people are way to into it. When you're at the point that you own a humidor or, even worse, a walk-in humidor, you've totally lost my interest.
So, yeah, the link to cancer is proven. But plenty of non-smokers also get lung cancer, and other horrible forms of cancer.
I'd be more worried about emphysema and COPD, not to mention the ridiculous amounts of money that people spend on tobacco and alcohol. If tobacco can be used on occasion, then that's up to the person using it. Unfortunately, I'm one of the few people I know who can use tobacco moderately. My grandfather also does, however. He smokes maybe a cigarette or two a day. Maybe. Plenty of days he has none.
But then, most other folks I know who are smoking are using anywhere from a half a pack of cigarettes a day to two packs. I've never known one myself, but I'd heard individuals who smoke three-to-four packs a day. That's a crazy amount of chain-smoking.
Unlike OLB, I won't relish in the death of a smoker. That dude seems to have some weird, obsessive beef with nicotine. I don't get it.
However, if you smoke tobacco every day of your life, you probably shouldn't be surprised when, at some point, you have health issues that arise from that behavior. So I'm not happy Rush Limbaugh has lung cancer... it's more so that I'm just not surprised. Same went for Hitchens. I'm not going to relish in someone's death, but it certainly didn't surprise me that Hitchens went out the way he did. My father has emphysema. I was terribly sad to hear the news, but not surprised.
When my best friend died of a heroin overdose... once again... terribly sad. But surprised? No. If anything, I felt bad for the family.
I think it's okay to be sensitive to someone's death. You don't have to act like you're relishing in someone's misfortune because it proves some point. Sometimes it's better to be emphatic than to feel validated.
Just my $0.02
So, yeah, the link to cancer is proven. But plenty of non-smokers also get lung cancer, and other horrible forms of cancer.
I'd be more worried about emphysema and COPD, not to mention the ridiculous amounts of money that people spend on tobacco and alcohol. If tobacco can be used on occasion, then that's up to the person using it. Unfortunately, I'm one of the few people I know who can use tobacco moderately. My grandfather also does, however. He smokes maybe a cigarette or two a day. Maybe. Plenty of days he has none.
But then, most other folks I know who are smoking are using anywhere from a half a pack of cigarettes a day to two packs. I've never known one myself, but I'd heard individuals who smoke three-to-four packs a day. That's a crazy amount of chain-smoking.
Unlike OLB, I won't relish in the death of a smoker. That dude seems to have some weird, obsessive beef with nicotine. I don't get it.
However, if you smoke tobacco every day of your life, you probably shouldn't be surprised when, at some point, you have health issues that arise from that behavior. So I'm not happy Rush Limbaugh has lung cancer... it's more so that I'm just not surprised. Same went for Hitchens. I'm not going to relish in someone's death, but it certainly didn't surprise me that Hitchens went out the way he did. My father has emphysema. I was terribly sad to hear the news, but not surprised.
When my best friend died of a heroin overdose... once again... terribly sad. But surprised? No. If anything, I felt bad for the family.
I think it's okay to be sensitive to someone's death. You don't have to act like you're relishing in someone's misfortune because it proves some point. Sometimes it's better to be emphatic than to feel validated.
Just my $0.02
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
