Doug Casey on Tobacco

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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” ― C.S. Lewis

Mr. Lewis was a smart man.



No kidding. Can those foul, reeking candles really be any better for you than a few wisps of second-hand smoke that drift past you outside? I really don't get the second-hand smoke thing, except as a mechanism to demonize smokers. If second-hand smoke really killed, no more than a handful of children would have survived the 50s-60s-70s.

May be mistaken but I think any other than pure Beeswax candles will be loaded with some bad things. yet so many fools think that having many candles burning in one or more rooms is just fine, along with a few buckets of Potpouri. That is great air quality,overlaying he wonderful scent of the insect sprays,hair sprays, detergents,polishes,etc.
Your mention of kids somehow defying the odds (according to todays anti smoking nazis) to survive growing up in the 50s-60s-70s is right on the mark.
I cannot remember any men who did not smoke cigars,cigarettes,pipes,do remember several chewers. Can only recall when I was a kid one or two aduilt Women who smoked
at all,and that was seldom.Having been born in the first half of the '30s my recollection is that people smoked virtually everywheres. The cigar lighter in the dashboard was used to light up your smokes. Now theyre converted into powering cell phones, Ipads etc.

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May be mistaken but I think any other than pure Beeswax candles will be loaded with some bad things. yet so many fools think that having many candles burning in one or more rooms is just fine, along with a few buckets of Potpouri. That is great air quality,overlaying he wonderful scent of the insect sprays,hair sprays, detergents,polishes,etc.
Your mention of kids somehow defying the odds (according to todays anti smoking nazis) to survive growing up in the 50s-60s-70s is right on the mark.
I cannot remember any men who did not smoke cigars,cigarettes,pipes,do remember several chewers. Can only recall when I was a kid one or two aduilt Women who smoked
at all,and that was seldom.Having been born in the first half of the '30s my recollection is that people smoked virtually everywheres. The cigar lighter in the dashboard was used to light up your smokes. Now theyre converted into powering cell phones, Ipads etc.

It's pretty hard to find an ash tray in a vehicle these days, but you çan find 3 charging ports. Hell, I remember when you had to actually drive inßtead of playing with two or three TV's, DVD's, phones and navigation systems. It's a friggin' miracle we were able to find our way to a destination back in the "old days". Sometimes you couldn't get a radio station and people actually talked to each other. (Shiver) It was frightening....