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speaking of killing yourself
A few minutes ago I was standing in line at the local corner grocery, staring at the halva and fig bars and waiting to pay my 99 cents for a bottle of white vinegar, when the person in front of me said something that caught my ear.
“American Spirit Organic, please.”
American Spirit is a brand of cigarette. The company used to be owned by Native Americans, but recently went the way of Ben & Jerry’s. My first reaction to the organic blend cigarette was, holy crap that’s unbelievably stupid. My reaction has changed very little over the past few minutes.
I smoked for 10 years. At the end I even bought an additive free brand… I can see how, if I still smoked, if faced with the option and if there wasn’t a price difference, I might even go for the organic… but as an outsider looking in. Organic cigarettes? It’s like inflating the tires in your Hummer to get better gas mileage or voting for the Green Party.
Maybe I’m just becoming an asshole non-smoker. O’well. That’s all for now.
3 Comments
1. albert replies at 27th September 2006, 9:26 pm :
organic cigarette? isn’t that oxymoronic nowadays? what’s organic about a cigarette?
2. Dugg replies at 28th September 2006, 10:21 am :
How did you quit smoking? I tried AS - but found that after I smoked them I was still craving a real cigarette with all the chemicals in it. It’s worse than heroin, man!
3. steve replies at 28th September 2006, 12:58 pm :
I tried switching to those quest reduced nicotine and nicotine free cigarettes. The reduced nicotine was just fine… nicotine free was a sham. It was like smoking air. I smoked the reduced for a while, got a cold and decided to try cold turkey. The first few weeks were the hardest, but it got better after a few months. I still miss it, but it’s easy to ignore at this point.
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