Archive for December, 2009

Merely Days until the Tobacco Restriction

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

All Right, St. Louis has passed a smoking ban for all restaurants and bars, with only minimum exemptions. I am so done with my legal rights dwindling down, I am distraught. I don’t fathom the reason non-smokers have such a aggressive personal opinion on what we smokers want to do. I understand that smoking is foul, but I made a conscience decision when I took up smoking, alert to the fact it was not good. Just because non-smokers want me to cease, does not mean that it is going to happen. Smoking in pubs has been a allowance, but most restaurants have a special smoking room. If non-smokers don’t want to be in the smoke, don’t sit down in the smoking room, you are not unwilling made to sit in smoking. And as far as the jobholers of these pubs that comment they are tortured by second hand smoke, what a joke. I held jobs in the service industry for over 10 years, and I know that most of theco-workers were smokers.  Interacting with the public, always, compels you to puff.  Also, I have never heard one non-smoking co-worker ever whine about smoking while on the job in the smoking room. Putting a smoking restriction in restaurants and bars, ultimately will only save me money, because I refuse to eat out after the the new year.

All I want for my Present: Cigars!

Friday, December 11th, 2009

I have decided this holiday to ask for easy presents that my wife can pick up comfortably for me. My first choice, as always, is my favored stogie from timberwolf-tobacco.com. My wife won’t even have to take leave of our home, she can go online (I have all my favorites sites saved) and place the order there. As far as more gifts, she can head over to the local shop and pick out a gift. She mentions every Christmas that I am utterly baffling man to buy for. But we have been inseperable for over 15 years! And if she doesn’t realize the things I want by now, I quit. I always say every December, “I want stogies”, I puff on 1 or 2 in a day, and that adds up. I own a humidor for holding my stogies, “what’s that for?” she inquires. Well my love, it’s to keep my stogies lively. So, if you get me smokes for the holiday I can keep them in the humidor for a few months and remove a stogie when I am ready to fancy one. Although I have to say, I was blessed with luck last year, she bought me a lighter that was ingraved with my initials. The year before, she gave me a fishing pole, without thinking I said I would like to go fishing again someday. Well, I went fishing only once in two years, but guess what, I still smoke 1-2 stogies every day. Well what do I want for my present this year? I want Stogies, and all else would just be an secondary delight.