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Haven’t seen an honest to god smoker in a while xD it had been years before I bumped into one a couple months ago. Vaping is all the rage now.

I quit smoking May 1st 2014 (cold turkey after almost 20 years of smoking) when my job stopped allowing smoking on the property on May 2nd. New owners kept the rule until recently as I can only guess there was to many people sneaking vape in places we couldn’t even smoke before.

Once they did that, I saw plenty of smokers and vapers. So still plenty of smokers and some of them young. Can also see them at the gas station pretty regularly when I go there.

Smoking is still pretty common, mostly by GenX and boomers like myself. I’ve all but quit myself, I use a vape mostly, because my wife has COPD due to an genetic issue, not from smoking. I was a 3 pack a day smoker, now it’s 3 packs a month. Mostly when I’m driving, I vent the car so on the rare occasion my wife has to go anywhere, it won’t bother her. She’s on at-home hospice, has less than a year.

Wow. I’m really sorry to about that, Scarsdale.
I’m wishing the best for you two, and sending my prayers if that’s OK for you two.
Cheers, TRA.

I’m saddened to hear of this. We are still so powerless before the gaze of death. I wish I had better to offer than my feeble art.

I can’t speak for Scarsdale, but as someone who is also enduring a significant family tragedy? It’s nice to come somewhere where the little art people are just living their lives. It sucks! But it is also Wednesday.

I am also a boomer, and also have many stories about both smoking and respiratory disease. I’ll just say that cigarettes are easy to pick up, and hard to put down–even if you’ve grown up seeing someone being killed by them. I last put them down in 1979, and only smoked for about 7 years, off and on (mostly on), so I think I might have beaten it this time. Still have dreams where I’m smoking again, though.

Anyhow, Scarsdale, I can fully empathize, and I wish both of you comfort and peace.

The only true-blue smokers I’ve seen are drivers. They throw the butts out the window and everything. They’ve all been older, too.

When you continue an addiction despite what it’s doing to your own body, why would you be concerned about it’s damage to the environment?

Health issues aside, I truly believe the biggest reason smokers get so much shit is that too many of them are slobs. So often smoking ares are littered, not just with butts but also with candy wrappers, pop cans, etc.

That and a lot of them will abuse the hell out of their habit to take frequent and excessive breaks at work leaving the non-smokers to pick up the slack.

Got so bad back in the day that I started taking “fresh air breaks”.

‘Till then, look out for flying presents.’ Is particularly on point here. Lots of tossed plastic easter eggs in this house, sometimes with ‘CATCH!!’ sometimes not.

I smoked for years and then quit when my kids were born. I switched to chew but it was gross and my wife hated it so now I just smoke cigars when it’s nice enough to do that outside (May – October in MN).

One of the kids at work vapes and he gets shit for it from everybody else. I tell him that when AI takes over, at least he’ll already have plenty of practice giving robots blowjobs. He hates that and it’s never not funny.

Just to be That Guy

I see pre-three-way flirting!

Since we know that John is the nearby Lothario or Casanova, he might just advance this into a fun, “three-way, private entertainment time”. ;D

For those of you not into reading the classics,

please translate- “the local Lothario”, into- “our local, horn dog!”

XD

For being such a horndog, he and Mike are the only ones who HAVENT (apparently) gotten any action this entire series.

Such is th curse of management?

Heh, heh, heh!
Yeah!
John + Mike probably say- “I can’t “manage” a dating life, because I’m too tired managing everthing else!”

:D

I like Bridgette’s little neutral face smile in the first panel, feels very calm and chill. Looking forward to see where this bit goes.

I suppose I would have reached a point where I didn’t notice but I think one of the reasons I didn’t pick up smoking is that I don’t like the smell of smoke on myself. Oddly tobacco smoke has a lot of pleasant memories. Cigar smoke reminds me of an uncle who passed 40 years ago. I can count the number of active tobacco smokers I know on one hand but back in the 1970’s quite a lot of my family and the people in my community smoked. Heck, my school had a designated smoking area for freshmen and up. Looking around now it is something to remember how pervasive it was back in the day.

The count of John meeting furry women (besides Alex), subject to correction:

Victoria, 4
Maddie, 3
Evrina, 4
Bridgette,2

My curiosity is, who does each ship John with?

Not to cause a flame war, but- did Maddie ever show an interest in John?

Oddly enough, I dont believe she did.

But this is also the interwebs, so

FLAME ON! BURN!
BUUUUUUUURRRRN!

(be sure to getcha some aloe vera)

Ya know; I’m pretty sure vaping wasn’t a thing when this comic started; otherwise, John totally would’ve been a vaper

In moments like this, John thinks to himself

All who are born will die
All beauty will fade
The strong are struck by illness,
And no one can escape.

Even the great Mt. Sumeru will erode by the kalpa’s end.
The vast and fathomless seas will dry up.
The earth, sun and moon will all perish in due time.
Not one thing in the world can escape impermanence.

Friends and relatives forsake you
As the rope drags you away
To the place of King Yama,
Where fate is determined by good karma.

Virtuous deeds give rise to good destinies,
And bad karma plunges one into Hell.

The wise should reflect and take heed.

I’m just curious:
did you ever read the webcomic, “Chimneyspeak” by Jack Cayless, Jackie?

***WARNING***

A warning to [anyone else] who reads this comment:

In my opinion:

Chimneyspeak is an action comic with LOTS of…what I call: explicit sexual drawings + explicit…sexual dialogue, and the characters do a lot of [gunfights, + street fighting] that result in very, very, gory scenes.

[If you don’t like] that sort of entertainment,…please DON’T go looking for it on the web, or go looking for it…anywhere else.

If that sort of reading is not a type of reading that you would like, then please do not look for that webcomic, anywhere.

Thank you very much.
Have a good evening, Everyone.

I did not read it.

That’s cool.

I thought that maybe you were spoofing the name of the Chimneyspeak [tm] comic, so that’s why I was curious about- if you had read that comic. As it turns out, you had not. That is OK.
No biggie. Talk to you later.

Cheers.

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