Okay, I don't get it, I mean, I'm all for FORCING someone to stop smoking, by raising prices of the product, providing countless laws of where you can, or cannot smoke, and outlawing them in public places, and I am all for this for the sake of someone else's right to breath cleaner air. We have all heard the rhetoric about how dangerous smoking is, I will even go as far to say that I agree with most of them. We have put some places out of business, (which is wonderful, because allot of folks lost their jobs because of this, and we succeeded in decreased jobs in the tobacco industry, and finally the cost of a pack of cigarettes can go for a whopping $6.00 a pack!! Wonders shall never cease to amaze me, of what we can do, to infringe on someone else's rights (depending on what side of the fence you are sitting on), if your a smoker, your rights are being infringed upon, by not letting you smoke, or die of lung cancer because you want too, and if your are a non smoker, your right to breath "cough" clean air, (which by the way is a joke to me).
We went through all of this, so that we all could be healthier, and breath clean air, right? Wow, great. We are such a smart society. Smoking has only existed since time began. The oldest Indians did it for centuries as a form of Peace Pipping, (if there is such a word). The only difference since then, is where they can do it! Now that we have saved the planet on smoking, lets walk outside for a moment, and look at all the wonderful carbon "fumes" we are inhaling...ahhhh much better. Every American at least owns 2.7 cars per household, and I really resent the fact that I have to go outside and breath your car smoke!! It must be healthier tho, cause everybody's doing it, including me!!, But with my 2.7 cars, along with yours and your neighbor, and on and on and on, we are taking our health, heart stimulating walks, in a whole world of smoke even more fun filled smoke! I saw a guy the other day, he had his ipod, and was doing the fast walk thing, arms rocking back and forth, checking his heart rate from time to time, probably feeling great about all this exercising he is getting in to make himself fit, but you could barely see him. LOL.
That is all good and well. I sense all of this is acceptable, but what about
alcohol? What are we doing about this killer? Nada, nothing, zilch. I for one want to put even more folks out of work, and stop the sales of Alcohol. Lets review this for a second. I am just wondering how many innocent , men, women, and children have been killed, because of this substance? And it is definitely a unwilling death. Some drunk leaves the bar or lounge, or even a friends house, and its 7:00 pm in the evening, and everybody is out walking in the smoke, and suddenly, you hear the squeal of the tires coming around the corner, at excessive speed, because there is a high speed chase going on, and this guy, obviously intoxicated, is swerving all over the place, and the cops are right on his tail. Once he rounds the corner, a youngster steps out from between two cars walking his bike to cross the street, and all you see is tennis shoes and bike parts flying all over the place, and a child lays dead on the street, never again to be embraced by his mother, never again to show that beautiful smile. He, or she......
IS DEAD!
Graphic, yes, does it happen, yes, don't take my word for it, ask MADD ! (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). Yes my friends, it happens all the time. So why are we still drinking, we are slowly weeding out smoking, and when are we going to start on weeding out drinking where innocent victims are claimed each year, against their own free will, and our drunks kill them. Oh yes, we have modified laws, some that make since, some that don't. For every good law that comes out, you have a blood sucking lawyer, trying to find the loop holes to get his client out of a DUI charge so that this winner, can go out and claim even another victim of alcohol!!! This is outrageous. I am not a drinker of habit or addiction, but I have an occasional "Bloody Mary". Even Jesus would drink wine! But he didn't drive a deadly donkey. But he drank his wine at the last supper to symbolize his blood. That's not being drunk, nor did he go outside, hop on his donkey, and run over somebody. Please understand, I am not mocking my Jesus, for he is my savior, but even he would agree to this in this day and age.
So, what is worse, smoking and killing ourselves willingly, by choice, or, driving over somebody, only to get out of jail in a couple of years, so that the drunk can do it all over again. if smoking is slowly being outlawed, and phased out, so should alcohol. These are just thoughts, put on paper to be thought provoking, and to try to make some kind of sense as to why things are, the way they are. The solution...I'm not sure...but drunk driving laws need to be just as stiff, and restrictive as smoking laws. If we are going to fix problems in this country, lets focus on them all, it is up to us to make a difference for ourselves, and more importantly, our children.
