Anti-smoking activists start a bombing campaign
I suppose that all of us know by now that smoking is bad for you. Of course, living is also bad for you. More people die from being born than from any habit they pick up later on. Life’s a 100% killer disease; smoking is just one of the possible complementary threats…
… and yet there’s this, almost world wide, hysteria about smoking. It’s been banned in bars, restaurants and parks, at bus stops and on beaches. There are plans to ban smokers from adopting children and old movies that still have actors smoking are no longer shown in an ever growing number of cinemas.
Total madness, really – and I say that as a non-smoker.
On the other hand, we know that humans always overreact. It’s what we do best. (That, and totally ignoring certain other problems. When we don’t want to see the elephant in the room, that sucker is SO not there, you know – but that’s another topic entirely.)
So, you could say overreacting isn’t a form of madness, really. It’s perfectly normal for our species.
Still, when I read the following news story, I did think that those anti-smoking activists are now really starting to get a little bit out of control:
“An Indonesian man lost six teeth when the cigarette he was smoking exploded in his mouth. Andi Susanto, a 31-year-old security guard, said PT Nojorono Tobacco Indonesia, the maker of the brand of cigarette he was smoking, had offered to pay for his medical treatment. A spokesman for the company said there were no plans for a recall.”
(Never mind those eyes: It will get your fucking teeth…!)
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