In my 50 - something years I’ve come to realize that stupid people actually control America. Not politicians and government officials - although it is quite obvious that ‘Stu-Pees’ (as I will now refer to them for brevity’s sake) - do, in fact, exist within that particular group as so often attested to by mainstream media. No, I’m talking about your average idiot on the street; the everyday, ordinary Jane and Joe Dunces. The All-American dim witted who do very stupid things that lead to loss of freedom and the right to common sense for the rest of us.
How, you might ask, is this bad for you? Oh, let me count the ways! First of all, Stu-Pees seem to have some kind of mystical ability to draw the attention of soap box firebrands who - having probably nothing else to do - instantly decide that whatever idiotic act the aforementioned Stupee committed must therefore cause the rest of us to repeat the mistake. Remember mom asking:
"What?!? If your friend Joey jumps off a bridge are you gonna jump, too?"
You, (of course!) denied being that stupid. So why, for God’s sake, if some kid steals OxyContic from his poor, cancer-riddled grandma, crushes it up, snorts it at a party and OD’s, do the poor souls, who truly suffer with the pain for which the drug was made for, get punished?
I smoked for over 40 years. Tried to quit for thirty. Tried patches, gum, hypnosis and the pill. Oh, my God, the pill. After a week the side effects turned me into a suicidal maniac. I just knew that there was no way on God's green earth I would ever be able to put down my Capri 120’s.
Then along comes the electronic cigarette. Do you know what it is? How it works? I’ll tell you how it worked for me: I bought one July 10th, 2010 and never smoked again. My doctor did joyous cartwheels.
Ah, I can the Stu-Pees now:
"Never smoked again?!? How can you say that? Aren’t you smoking an electronic cigarette?"
Not so fast, Sherlock. (Oxymoronic, I know) I am vaping. No flame, no fire, no tar. No second hand smoke. No nasty smell. None of the 400 + toxic chemicals found in real cigarettes enter my lungs. What I do inhale is flavored - called e-juice or liquid - made with a food grade glycerine product base, a food grade flavoring for taste and may or may not contain varying amounts of liquid nicotine. The same glycerine product found in foods you eat every day; the base ingredient in medical inhalers. Notice I said medical.
Surprisingly, as it turns out, that ranks-up-there-with-Charlie Manson nicotine may actually have some positive benefits but you must dig deep to find that little whiff of info because in the American Evils Dictionary nicotine falls somewhere between necrophilia and nightmare. Nicotine research is about as popular as road kill stew.
(My bad. This is a link that discusses the beneficial properties: )
The skyrocketing number of people who are quitting the tobacco habit via e-cig have Big Tobacco running scared and they are scrambling to muscle into the act. Lobbying to have laws, regulations and outright bans while secretly developing their own e-cig model, forcing smaller competitors out of the market. No one has yet to produce any proof that ‘vaping’ is harmful to your health nor has any public official stepped up to even suggest that it might save a life or two. Million.
Enter Stupee. Now old Stupee quit smoking years ago; he still vividly recalls the agonies of defeat, still clinches with cravings. If he can’t smoke nobody can. He wants you to endure the hell he did. Sally Stupee never smoked and has no idea what quitting the habit is like. Nor does she know or care what an electronic cigarette is. Frankly, she doesn’t care whether you live or die. No, Sally thinks teenagers will use them. They must be outlawed!!!
Just say 'no’ cuz that’s worked so well…
I started smoking for the same reason most kids do: peer pressure, to be cool. Honestly, if my kid wanted to smoke I’d run to the nearest place I could find one and buy him an e-cig and a bottle of zero-nicotine, bubble gum flavored liquid and thank my lucky stars for the technology.
Stupid people are bad for you because they lack what? Intelligence? No. Stupid people are bad for you because they have no common sense. That’s the part of your brain that tells you, for instance, if you order a cup of coffee and spill it on yourself you’ll get burned. If you are behind the wheel of a moving vehicle and texting you can kill somebody. Stupid people cost the rest of us millions of dollars and mind numbing amounts of legislature to protect us from them.
Just common sense, right?
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