This interview with 'Chif the Mouse digs deep into the rodent's former smoking habits, and takes a peek into the soul of a tiny critter.
'Chif was played by Katrina James. All stories in the interview are true, unless they're made up.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
The information overload is here.
Here are some helpful links to various sites with loads of information of tobacco and its various evils.
Smoking statistics:
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4559
Adolescent smoking statistics:
http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=39868
Smoking database:
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/sgr/search.aspx
Tobacco statistics and tax information:
http://www.atf.gov/tobacco/statistics/index.htm
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST!
http://www.thetruth.com/
Because I love some good ol' propaganda. Good propaganda, though.
Smoking statistics:
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4559
Adolescent smoking statistics:
http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=39868
Smoking database:
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/sgr/search.aspx
Tobacco statistics and tax information:
http://www.atf.gov/tobacco/statistics/index.htm
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST!
http://www.thetruth.com/
Because I love some good ol' propaganda. Good propaganda, though.
Friday, March 7, 2008
What?!
I've got to say, those Minnesota smokers are geniuses!
A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are getting around the ban by printing up playbills, encouraging customers to come in costume, and pronouncing them "actors."
See the whole article here. This is by far the most creative loophole I've ever heard of, no pun intended. I'm all for making smokers work for their habit. Maybe this will encourage a new wave of creative socialization, forcing people to use their imaginations to pay for their habits. I'd love to see more people taking acting classes. Friggin awesome.
A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are getting around the ban by printing up playbills, encouraging customers to come in costume, and pronouncing them "actors."
See the whole article here. This is by far the most creative loophole I've ever heard of, no pun intended. I'm all for making smokers work for their habit. Maybe this will encourage a new wave of creative socialization, forcing people to use their imaginations to pay for their habits. I'd love to see more people taking acting classes. Friggin awesome.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Man, I remember when I was this dumb. The blog brings up a good issue in the latest entry, though. People being discriminated against for being smokers is a really ridiculous (especially since their only crime is killing themselves) and the example given of a company called Homac testing for nicotine just like some companies test for drugs or alcohol is a great example of the insanity this world is experiencing. Some people aren't ready to quit, that's all. Until the human race is purged of tobacco for good, there will be people who enjoy smoking it and those people have the right to enjoy their deaths in any way they wish.
I guess that might sound harsh. But I mean it. People deserve their choices.
As for this woman, please slap me if I become this whiny. While I choose not to smoke anymore, people who force their beliefs on others, no matter how much they think they're helping, should keep their point of view to themselves. While Tammy is doing a great job quitting, her constant stream of blather has me praying to whoever-might-be-upstairs that I can do it too (but sans the pathetic self-pity).
Wow, this entry makes me seem like a complete jerk. I guess I haven't had a very good day. Really wanted a cigarette on Wednesday. The Skyline View newspaper was in production and the last semester I worked on it, I was a smoker. Needless to say, the stress made me an addict once more and I was considerably tempted to run outside, find the closest night class student, and take their cigarettes.
Good thing I didn't.
I guess that might sound harsh. But I mean it. People deserve their choices.
As for this woman, please slap me if I become this whiny. While I choose not to smoke anymore, people who force their beliefs on others, no matter how much they think they're helping, should keep their point of view to themselves. While Tammy is doing a great job quitting, her constant stream of blather has me praying to whoever-might-be-upstairs that I can do it too (but sans the pathetic self-pity).
Wow, this entry makes me seem like a complete jerk. I guess I haven't had a very good day. Really wanted a cigarette on Wednesday. The Skyline View newspaper was in production and the last semester I worked on it, I was a smoker. Needless to say, the stress made me an addict once more and I was considerably tempted to run outside, find the closest night class student, and take their cigarettes.
Good thing I didn't.
Friday, February 29, 2008
It appears we're all doomed!
I find this incredibly funny and anger-inspiring. At the same time.
I am completely in awe about the cycle of bullshit involved with Big Tobacco... it's absurd. Like your crack dealer offering rehabilitation services (for a small fee, of course). I'm just amazed that these people can get you hooked on cigarettes, then give you the solution to quitting, and you have to pay out the ears for it either way. I'm not sure which thought is more disturbing--that tobacco companies are allowed control of this cycle, which can easily be manipulated to serve their benefit (would you trust a guy who stabbed you in the gut with a knife to patch you up with a first aid kit? or call the hospital?), OR the fact that it essentially costs more for nicotine patches/gum than cigarettes.
Even if Philip Morris were to wear a little halo and angel wings and give us big puppy-dog eyes, somehow convincing us that YES, they are desperately trying to fix the awful mistake they made in distributing all those harmful cigarettes, that whole "nicotine patches costing more than cigarettes" thing is still REALLY effed the eff up. Why can't they make the solution to the problem cheaper than the problem?
Oh yeah. Cause its Philip fucking Morris. And if you swirl those letters around for a while you might just end up with E-V-I-L.
In recent news, there is now a BIG OL' STUDY about the international effects of smoking on pregnant women. This is yet another thing that bugs me. We sit here in our shiny country, watching shitty television while we eat our crunchy Doritos and comfortably drift into the oblivious state of mind that most of America suffers from today. All the while, our flabbergastingly unhealthy lifestyle choices are oozing all over the world, infecting other countries like VDs, or STDs, or STIs, or whatever you call them these days. Slowly but surely, I predict that the tables will turn. More and more people outside the U.S., Europe, and other supposedly developed countries will begin smoking, while the citizens of the United States of Apathy slowly reduce their risk factors by putting down the cigs. We'll probably have hundreds of charitable organizations dedicated to helping people outside the country quit, but you won't see me there.
The hypocrisy would be too embarrassing.
I am completely in awe about the cycle of bullshit involved with Big Tobacco... it's absurd. Like your crack dealer offering rehabilitation services (for a small fee, of course). I'm just amazed that these people can get you hooked on cigarettes, then give you the solution to quitting, and you have to pay out the ears for it either way. I'm not sure which thought is more disturbing--that tobacco companies are allowed control of this cycle, which can easily be manipulated to serve their benefit (would you trust a guy who stabbed you in the gut with a knife to patch you up with a first aid kit? or call the hospital?), OR the fact that it essentially costs more for nicotine patches/gum than cigarettes.
Even if Philip Morris were to wear a little halo and angel wings and give us big puppy-dog eyes, somehow convincing us that YES, they are desperately trying to fix the awful mistake they made in distributing all those harmful cigarettes, that whole "nicotine patches costing more than cigarettes" thing is still REALLY effed the eff up. Why can't they make the solution to the problem cheaper than the problem?
Oh yeah. Cause its Philip fucking Morris. And if you swirl those letters around for a while you might just end up with E-V-I-L.
In recent news, there is now a BIG OL' STUDY about the international effects of smoking on pregnant women. This is yet another thing that bugs me. We sit here in our shiny country, watching shitty television while we eat our crunchy Doritos and comfortably drift into the oblivious state of mind that most of America suffers from today. All the while, our flabbergastingly unhealthy lifestyle choices are oozing all over the world, infecting other countries like VDs, or STDs, or STIs, or whatever you call them these days. Slowly but surely, I predict that the tables will turn. More and more people outside the U.S., Europe, and other supposedly developed countries will begin smoking, while the citizens of the United States of Apathy slowly reduce their risk factors by putting down the cigs. We'll probably have hundreds of charitable organizations dedicated to helping people outside the country quit, but you won't see me there.
The hypocrisy would be too embarrassing.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Las Vegas was a trip, let me tell you. I drank and drank and yet I resisted the temptation to buy and/or smoke any tobacco. I'll post some photographs soon of my time there. Funny thing: I wanted a cigar more than cigarettes. I guess I was feeling like a high roller. Or something.
So, I've recently been in the middle of a move. Last night I was packing my stuff when I saw that the new roommate had a pack of cigarettes. It was hanging out on a cushioned bench, open and waiting for me to pluck one of the juicy smokes from its innards. For some reason I haven't wanted a cigarette more than when that open pack was staring at me. It would have been so easy to just grab one without the guy even knowing I'd taken it. I'm surprised I was able to resist.
Again, my surroundings dictate how addicted I am, and I'm reminded of this by the play I'm working on. While I'm no longer constantly fighting myself to not smoke, I find my feet automatically moving whenever another cast member goes outside to smoke.
My lungs are getting better.
Articles of interest:
Smoking kills 1 million Indians a year
Damage to unborn babies from smoking 'negligible' within the first five months
Sheraton to ban smoking in all hotels
So, I've recently been in the middle of a move. Last night I was packing my stuff when I saw that the new roommate had a pack of cigarettes. It was hanging out on a cushioned bench, open and waiting for me to pluck one of the juicy smokes from its innards. For some reason I haven't wanted a cigarette more than when that open pack was staring at me. It would have been so easy to just grab one without the guy even knowing I'd taken it. I'm surprised I was able to resist.
Again, my surroundings dictate how addicted I am, and I'm reminded of this by the play I'm working on. While I'm no longer constantly fighting myself to not smoke, I find my feet automatically moving whenever another cast member goes outside to smoke.
My lungs are getting better.
Articles of interest:
Smoking kills 1 million Indians a year
Damage to unborn babies from smoking 'negligible' within the first five months
Sheraton to ban smoking in all hotels
Monday, February 4, 2008
34 Days...
Smokers to the left of me, smokers to the right... here I am stuck in addiction.
It seems that Skyline College is full of smokers and, strangely, it feels like there are more smokers now than when I last went here two semesters ago. In that period of time, folks with cigarettes have appeared to multiply, at least to my unaccustomed eyes. It's not like I particularly care if people smoke, I just have a VERY hard time keeping myself from doing it if I see two-out-of-three people in my general area lighting up.
I'm going to Vegas on Wednesday. Smoking is legal indoors. I'm going to be indoors. I'm doomed. I just hope I can drink myself into such a stupor that I'll forget that I'm addicted to tobacco and just waste my money on Blackjack and Keno.
We'll see.
It seems that Skyline College is full of smokers and, strangely, it feels like there are more smokers now than when I last went here two semesters ago. In that period of time, folks with cigarettes have appeared to multiply, at least to my unaccustomed eyes. It's not like I particularly care if people smoke, I just have a VERY hard time keeping myself from doing it if I see two-out-of-three people in my general area lighting up.
I'm going to Vegas on Wednesday. Smoking is legal indoors. I'm going to be indoors. I'm doomed. I just hope I can drink myself into such a stupor that I'll forget that I'm addicted to tobacco and just waste my money on Blackjack and Keno.
We'll see.
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