Jump to full article: Hazleton (PA) Standard-Speaker, 2010-02-27
Author: Robert Robbins, Drums
Intro: Do you remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger was President George H. W. Bush's chairman for the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports?
Arnold was probably the most appropriate spokesperson ever chosen for that body. He remains, to this day, inspiration for exercising and living a healthy lifestyle.
But wait a minute. Isn't Arnold occasionally spotted smoking a $20, hand-rolled Nicuraguan corona? Isn't this a contradiction to what Arnold preaches? Or does he know something we don't?
On Feb. 15, on ABC's "Good Morning America," their minister of medical propaganda, Dr. Timothy Johnson reported that a brand new study suggests smoking cigars and pipes is just as dangerous as smoking cigarettes. . . .
But years ago, Dr. Timothy Johnson also reported there was no difference between a regular cigarette and a "light" cigarette. Tell that to the smoker of a "light" cigarette whose head feels like it's going to explode smoking a regular cigarette.
5. No pipe or cigar smoker I know lights up when first waking up in the morning. Or with morning coffee or after breakfast or after a shower or after lunch, etc. There is no nicotine addiction. Most pipe and cigar smokers, if not all, would never think of lighting up a cigarette. They'd look at you like you're nuts. I would prefer to be in the company of a cigar smoker who ran out of cigars than to be in the company of a cigarette smoker who has run out of cigarettes.
So how are the results of the study from the Columbia School of Medicine going to be used? Taxes.
Cigarette smokers have kept Pennsylvania and most other states fiscally afloat for a long, long time. But their ranks are dwindling. A new target group that has been flying under the radar for a long, long time will be in the sights of state Legislatures. So be warned. This study came out just in time.
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