What a day. Domestic travel came to a standstill, banks announced major layoffs, and now you’re going to discover that the GOP is even more petty and outrageous — not to mention unhealthy — than you’d ever suspected.

The old congress is out the new one is in, and so is cigar and cigarette smoke. Maybe pot, too, for all that I know.

What sane human being smokes anything in this day and age? Apparently it’s an issue with the Republicans, according to this Reuter’s reporter.

I didn’t know this was even an issue, which is why I share the story. In my bubble of reality, anybody sane or reasonable stopped smoking long ago. But I guess the party that can deny the reality of COVID can deny the reality of lung cancer, just as easily. It does make sense.

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  1. I’ll admit that if it was legal where I live I’d probably fire up some weed now and then. And if I could golf, I’d puff on a cigar out on the golf course (helps keep insects away) but that’s outdoors and very few people around. And when I’ve ridden in a cart with someone who doesn’t want it I’ve refrained. I thought we’d gotten past people smoking at work. And cigar smoke is like that of a heavy smoker – over time it permeates EVERYTHING. I’m not surprised the Speaker’s office still had a whiff of smoke from Boehner’s (and some before him) cigars. But I think the main takeaway is that THIS is the kind of thing this new GOP Congress thinks is so important to take care of! (Did you see that in MO the asshats took up a dress code for women legislators?)

  2. There’s no scientific evidence smoking weed causes lung cancer as there has been proven with tobacco products. Heavy cigarette smokers leave a film on everything. I once lived in a former catholic parish in New England. The priests used to smoke in the bathrooms. For months, everytime anyone took a shower, brown stains ran down the walls. I also worked in the RJ Reynolds tobacco warehouses several summers in Winston-Salem. Wonderful aroma in all that cured tobacco. They periodically sealed these giant warehouses and pumped in cyanide to kill the bugs from around the world. God knows what they added in the processing.

    • It has also been proven that cigarette smoke contains 1300 toxic or carcinogenic substances.
      They are treating themselves like they treat the environment.

  3. And driving up the healthcare costs for treating all the diseases smoking cigarettes causes. They don’t care because they get FREE HEALTH CARE! Oh what a system!

  4. Before indoor smoking was banned, our company designated a “smoking area”, a small break room. The walls were all yellowed and if you bought a bag of chips from the vending machine, the smell clinging to the package made them inedible. Smokers lose enough of their sense of smell that they can’t detect it, so they have no clue how awful it is. The only smell worse than cigarette smoke is the same a day or two later when it becomes “stale”.

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