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In this "big bands" link, the Glenn Miller section has shows sponsored by Chesterfield. One commercial features an Olympic diver who relaxes nerves before dive by smoking a few. Different times. Most the Miller shows are WWII era and great listening.
http://www.radiolovers.com/pages/bigbands.htm

Put this in your pipes and smoke it, Suckeyes.

https://youtu.be/VCja0aSUi2A

Need the Wings to win tonight for the trifecta.

This thread belongs in misfires.

I hear you ,my arse was never cold growing up .
I personally have no desire to smoke a pouch a week ,some do but it's not for me ,nor do I have a desire to read the words in the bottom of a Glenlivet bottle ....I have seen them on a few occasions ,but oddly enough never could pick them out when I got there

I hear what the naysayers preach ,but we can't think for other people .

I'm still looking for the Rosslare at a decent price ,and there will be nights when I'm squinting at those words Gordon Smith put on the bottom of that damn bottle ,but it wont be an every day occurrence that i'm sure of .

I figure I die of exposure on the barrens ,a bag full of birds, a pocket full of empty shells , my lefever across my lap ... or perhaps my C grade parker ,that elusive rosslare bit down hard in my maw and a little silver flask in my hand

Either that or falling off the damn ladder cleaning the frigging chimney,or putting up bloody Christmas lights !

"I hear what the naysayers preach, but we can't think for the other people". Well, let me tell you Newf, when smokers get sick, and I mean real sick, and sickness directly related to smoking, by necessity their doctors do all the thinking for them, and lots of it. I'm glad the naysayers are preaching here. Some of the folks reading this are moderate smokers and others are heavy duty smokers. If we have made even one heavy smoker consider quitting, then all this preaching is worth it in my opinion. Tobacco is a killer, and that's the bottom line.

Fine Buzz ,I'm not trying to change your mind and I apologize if it seemed that way I was just having a good time with this .... I've said on most every post I agree with you,you're obviously very passionate about your opinion regarding this topic ...but the people who do enjoy these things will continue to do so how they see fit ,this was a thread about the enjoyment and interest of a certain thing ,I also apologize to the OP that this has gone on to what it has ...you've made your point Buzz thanks for the facts and your passion explaining them ,but I will still smoke when I feel like it as will the others who do here ,you're not telling anything we haven't already heard .

Things like this are why I hate to post here,I thought with mis fires gone we could could have a nice discussion and pass some pictures and experiences back and fourth .
Not likely apparently

smokingpipes.com Newf. Pretty sure they ship to Canada. Of course you have to convert that monopoly money. What is it? $1.33? Ouch.
Generally have sales this time of year, 20-25% off. Just gotta wait for them.

Off to burn some of the carbon off my soul. I'll say a prayer for everyone. Wings won in OT. Ha! Sorry Buckeye fans.


That's smokingpipes.com

I wasn't picking on you, Newf. if people want to smoke, well it is their decision. I just hope people think about and consider quitting if they are addicted or will be addicted. Nothing personal to you or LR's. Just trying to make a legitimate point.

Seeing as the whole thread is off topic.....that nose dive by our dollar sure has put a cramp in my interest in guns south of the border. But I am looking in the safe for any likely candidates for sale TO someone down there. Most of my guns were bought when the dollar was close to par. Every thing else being equal, the FX now gives me a significant rise in value. Way more than enough to compensate for the cost to get them down there.

it seems to me that there is a certain drive in a particular group of people - at least in an unfortunately large part of us - to think that they have found and know the best way for humankind to exist.
The problem always is that the uneducated masses are always easily swayed one way or the other!
One example would be Hitler; others are the different churches and religions.
You must do as I think is right! If you do not, I must punish you for thinking (and doing) differently!
Example: Spanish Inquisition, the Katholic Church and: (as that doesn't seem to work anymore,) nowadays the Anti Smoking Lobby!
and others with similar prohibitions. (an unintentionally good example!)
I do not remember people falling down an die in the good old days when everyone smoked everywhere!

The biggest con was when the original scare story of 'smoking kills you' didn't work quite as well as expected, that someone cleverly invented the 'second hand smoke' danger!
(if we can't stop them smoking then we must have their peers doing it for us!)
I grew up in a smoking family (I'm sure my mother smoked in the hospital when I was born!) My grandfather died at 94, grandmother at 87, my parents at 81&82 - would they all have lived to 100 and would they have wanted to?

I recently spoke to someone who (seriously) told me that his parents died of a 'smoking related disease'
when I asked him how old they might have been, he said 84 !

I wish that I will do the same at the same age!
(I am 70 now and have smoked since the age of 14)

As the religious theme doesn't seem to work so well nowadays, these people need to find something else - some have found their new calling in 'global warming', others in 'smoking is deadly' and yet others in a myriad of other 'don't's

The real problem, in my mind, is that there are way too many people on this planet! Quarter the amount of human animals and we would not have any problem with 'global warming', car accidents, smoking too near someone who doesn't like it - and so many other problems due to living on top of each other, and in the end 'terrorism', as that would be useless - we all would stay in our own land - adventurors excepted.

What's the answer? - I don't know
(and - luckily, at my age I don't have to worry too much about the loonies taking over the world (they nearly have anyway!)
unfortunately my children will have to live with it!

Anyone wishing to crucify me - join the queue (after giving me your details)
but - I shoot back! hehe

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Since this is a gun forum (occasionally) possibly an appropriate analogy would be in choosing to shoot damascus barrels, despite the (no doubt well intentioned and with no secondary gain whatsoever ) warnings by gun and ammo makers and their voluntary trade association. Many here have attempted to provide factual data regarding the risks of doing so, and urged due diligence in measuring wall thickness, etc.
So someone, with no attempt to determine the integrity of the Twist barrels on grandpa's tradename gun, goes duck hunting with Remington Nitro-Steel� High-Velocity Magnum Load and sends shrapnel flying, which pierces his skull (and possibly his friend's) leaving him/them paralyzed, mute, and bedridden the rest of his not-much-of-a life. Who then pays for the life-time care?
In this country it is those purchasing health insurance, and ultimately the taxpayer when he is shifted to Medicaid. How would that work in England? Is there a limit to life-time medical expenses?
Each of picks and chooses his risky behavior; but in our narcissistic and nothing-is-my-fault world we then expect someone else to pay for the consequences; like lung and oral cancers. Which BTW are very bad ways of dying.
So choose to smoke, or chew, or use a pipe, with a full understanding of the best science regarding the risk; just don't ask non-smokers (or a child with cystic fibrosis or asthma) to breath your toxic smoke, or pay for your health care. Indeed some are genetically protected from the risks, many are not.
And yes; somebody else is paying for the cost of the epidemic of obesity related diabetes (and the complications thereof), obstructive sleep apnea, joint replacements, and hypertension.
And it's a glorious sunny day here in the desert so I'll go outside and work on a skin cancer, then cook up a bacon & cheese omelet for dinner