Sunday's Doonesbury- Pick your poison

[n2doc]

[oberliner]

1. The good news is that smoking is way down

There's been quite an incredible shift in this country as far as cigarettes are concerned.

[Ligyron]

2. With electronic cigarette devises available now there's no need to smoke.

Those filthy things will die out eventually. What's interesting is: every time I put on TCM or an old black and white movie how many people are smoking and the deference the habit is given in the script.

New ones too (still) come to think of it. Guess that tobacco money comes in handy pre-production.

But even in the new movies you rarely see an electronic nicotine delivery devise used now that I think of it.

[oberliner]

4. It is visually interesting in film

It would be cool if there was a way that smoking could exist and be completely healthy.

[Victor_c3]

9. Not only that, but it can help drive plot

“You got a smoke?” Line is used conveniently to make two characters start talking to each other who would have little reason to otherwise.

The same with offering a woman a light.

[yardwork]

7. The e-cigarettes are even more dangerous. Don't be fooled.

The chemicals in the e-cigarettes include all the dangerous chemicals in tobacco plus additional chemicals.

[Brainstormy]

8. and you know that how? n/t

[yardwork]

11. Talking with public health experts. Read up on it.

[Brainstormy]

12. I just did.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/sifting-the-evidence/2017/dec/29/e-cigarettes-vaping-safer-than-smoking


https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/e-cigs-inconvenient-truth-its-much-safer-to-vape-20151221

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/smoke-screen-are-e-cigarettes-safe/


http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2017/02/06/new-study-comes-the-closest-yet-to-proving-that-e-cigarettes-arent-as-dangerous-as-smoking/


and there's more

[yardwork]

13. Here's another:

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/concerns-explode-over-new-health-risks-vaping

[Ligyron]

10. There's no tar in e-cigs.

[mountain grammy]

3. Yes, but alcohol industry inventing new and better products.

I've never been a drinker (midnight toker here) but I gotta say, even I love that Deep Eddy's grapefruit vodka and some of the other stuff. Glad it wasn't around when I was growing up.

Cigarettes and booze, the real gateway drugs.

[Mosby]

15. thanks to those nanny staters...

Who limited advertising, put warning labels on packs and taxed the fuck out of cigs.

Now the suggestion of taxing products to reduce consumption gets ridiculed by the right and left (soda, junk food etc.)

[dembotoz]

5. An interesting point to ponder isn't it

Should point out it takes an entire football season to go thru a 12pack of beer...
Last game...2 cans left


But he point about the biggest consumers just rings true.

[Mosby]

14. it has a name

The 80/20 rule.

In sales it's described as 80 percent of your revenue coming from 20 percent of your customers. The ratio in practice is never exact.

[Towlie]

6. "Fully half" is an oxymoron.

I think its usage shows that the speaker would have preferred to say "most" but the statistics didn't quite support that, and he wanted to subtly preserve the compelling rhetoric that the word would have had.

[Gothmog]

16. Another great Doonesbury strip