A Smoking Report Indicating a Remarkable Tolerance for Smoking Tobacco
By Larry Brian Radka Here is some rare smoking news. After reporting that "in men small doses of tobacco smoke excite the intellectual faculties," under the heading "Tolerance of Tobacco," in the Year-Book of Nature and Popular Science for 1872, John C. Draper, M.D., also pointed out that
"A remarkable instance of tolerance by the human system of the excessive use of tobacco is afforded in the case of Mr. Klaes, of Rotterdam. This gentleman, who was known as the 'king of smokers,' has just died in his eightieth year, and is said to have consumed during his long life more than four tons of tobacco. The ruling passion was apparent in the will of the deceased, and in his eccentric request that his oak coffin might be lined with the cedar of his old cigar-boxes, and that a box of French caporal and a packet of old Dutch tobacco might be placed at its foot, and by the side of his body his favorite pipe, together with matches, flint and steel, and tinder."
We wonder if his thoughtful request was the result of so much tobacco smoke stimulating his brain? Nevertheless, he is not to be blamed. We know this because in its description of the Lord, the Bible tells us in 2 Samuel 22:9 that "there went up a smoke out of his nostrils." If God smokes, then smoking is a holy thing! *
*NOTES:
The United States Supreme Court has upheld the Constitution's establishment of the separation of Church and State. Since the Jewish and Christian God of the Bible smoked, then this is a religious issue that is an important element to be reverently observed as an important ceremony in Judeo-Christian religious worship. No government serving under the U. S. Constitution has a right to tax or regulate smoking in any way since it is a Church issue immune from State jurisdiction. 
If the American Civil Liberties Union would challenge in court the illegal taxes and discriminating laws heaped on smokers, all would probably be quickly defeated, and smokers could once more publicly practice their religion. Smokers should get off their silly guilt trip, bring some sharp smoking and religious lawyers on board to challenge the injustice imposed on smokers by Federal, State, and local governments, and immediately begin to light up again!
Allow God to show us the way, and put the overeating hypocrites, the hospitalized obese ex-smokers, on the defensive instead!
Furthermore, the Nicotine Nazi's fantasy about a second-hand smoke hazard is nothing but smoke. My father smoked two to three packs of Camels a day for well over forty years in front of my mother. She is eighty-five and still going strong! My wife pointed out to me that an old gentleman, once a neighbor, who was a heavy cigar smoker all his life, recently died at the age of 101.
Can the anti-smoking gurus explain that? In fact, nicotine, a key ingredient in tobacco, has several positive effects on our health. The Judeo-Christian God must have known what he was doing!
A Recent Note
The actor Charles Lane died at the age of 102 in July of 2007. Associate Press writer Bob Thomas reported that Lane's "son noted that his father smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 70 years." How will the Nicotine Nazis explain this one? Today, August 29, 2007, I just heard Dr. Dean Edell, the host of America's second most popular syndicated radio talk show, speak about a hundred-year-old woman celebrating her birthday while lighting up a cigarette. She had been smoking since she was seven years old, before World War I, and continuing to enjoy her pastime ninety-three years later. There are many more examples. How are the Nicotine Nazis going to handle these?
We know that only one out of ten smokers die of a smoking related disease. How many obese people die of their habit? Why don't they have to pay for their addiction and growing hospital bills with heavy taxes like cigarette smokers? Why aren't they run out of restaurants like smokers? It's because soccer moms are better with dumping out their anti-smoking propaganda than Joseph Goebbels ever hoped to be in shoveling out Hitler's "above all" diarrhea in the Nazi campaign. Yet, ruthless state governments and greedy anti-tobacco lawyers are allowed to continue to pig out on a poor man's smoking solace. Wow, if this is justice, there is none! Yet, today's smoking cowards are afraid to thwart this theft, and meekly hide out in harsh weather to endure unjustified guilt trips instead. Don't allow obese ex-smokers to continue to put you out in the cold while they lie inside and steal your hard-earned money to pay for their fat hospital bills. Tell'em you're mad as hell and ain't going to take it any longer! At least, make the hogs pay for your health costs, with a hefty tax to clean out their troughs!
Above all, stand by the Holy Bible! The next time some munching maniac tells you to put it out, tell the heathen: "Go to hell, it's my religion. If God can smoke, so can't I!"
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