Everyone knows that smoking makes you cooler. But few seem to acknowledge the sacrifice in being so cool.
Smokers are the martyrs of our time. Like Joan of Arc and Sir Thomas Moore, the nicotine-addicted greatly sacrifice themselves for the public’s greater good. And we should humbly thank them.
Not only have they forsaken spewing out chemical-laden clouds indoors for your health, but they also pick up the tab whenever their fellow Americans call, be it for arts programs or sports stadiums. And just this month, they were asked to relinquish funding for programs to help them quit, just so your really smart kids can get jobs here in Ohio rather than fleeing to sphincter towns like San Francisco and New York…
This article appears in Apr 16-22, 2008.