Although old and most corny, they say it all.
"More Doctors Smoke Camel"
Even that surprised me. I know how well advertised and accepted smoking was back in the day, but "More Doctors Smoke Camel"!
You know, I can't remember the last time I saw an advertisement for cigarettes. Haven't they all pretty much been banned? I'm an ex-smoker, and even I think the level to which smoking and smokers have been persecuted of late, is BS. I don't know if some of the issues where I live are just state wide, or if they are happening across the country. For example, here in the St. Louis and broader state wide Missouri area, we've had issues with people wanting to make ALL public places "smoke-free". Even bars and night clubs! Now how stupid and asinine is that? They won't even allow smoking
sections in restaurants. I'm not exactly sure what the law is relative to this, but many restaurants here have gone "smoke free".
It's gotten so bad that some in the Missouri Legislature want to ban all smoking at any medical facility. I'm not sure of the current status of that proposal, but my wife works at a local hospital and smoking is completely banned on the premises, period! There's not a single designated smoking area anywhere on the hospital's property, and it's the largest hospital in the state! If you are visiting someone in the hospital, or worse yet, are a patient yourself, you have to leave the hospital's property to smoke, not just step outside it's doors. Total cutthroat nonsense.
I always point out to smoker's who act coy about the health issues related to smoking: "Hey, you are sucking on something that is on FIRE"! OK, let's just be candid here. But none the less, I have no problem if they choose to do so. If you enjoy em', smoke em'. Just provide me a non-smoking section when I eat out, and provide the smokers a place to light up at places like hospitals, and we can all get along. Right? It's not so hard if we can keep the smoking police out of the government.