[patience]

Glad you're back, Pops! Hope you stay healthy now. Thankfully, I only have the tobacco habit. Wife wanted me to have a physical, worried about me never going to a Dr., so I went. Result was all the blood work in perfect shape. Only thing he could find was blood pressure a bit low. Told him that was because I had not eaten breakfast due to the blood test! Chronic low plood pressure. All the hype about DON'T EAT SALT, and if I don't, somebody has to scrape me off the floor with a putty knife. I wish all the Dr.s who praise my wonderful low BP had to live with it personally! Feel like crap if I don't get enough salt. Salt, carbs, grease (brain food), caffiene, and nicotine; that about rounds out my diet. 6 ft. 1" tall, and 152 lbs. dressed with work boots on. Most people hate me for that.

If I quit smoking, my appetite would blossom (tried it) and I'd be a blimp within a month. Tobacco, sour mash, and hard work killed my great grandad, at 93. Arthritis will probably be so bad by then that I won't care. I'll keep my habit, I think.

[OutOfGas]

I don't smoke, but decided to grow some tobacco in my garden this year.

Not that many sources for seed. I ended up getting my seeed from Victory Seed Company.

I can see Gov. banning seed sales so people will have to pay tax.

I would imagine that homegrown tobacco is significantly less harmful and addictive than the stuff loaded with "EXTRAS".

Appears that the plant has very pretty red flowers.

[dunewalker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('patience', 'I') don't plan to quit... Sorry, I'm hopelessly addicted. And it is one bad habit that the govt will have a tough time taking away from me.

[AAA]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('stonecypher', ' ')what would you be willing to do to break the habit once and for all?

[patience]

dunewalker,

Yep. No medical "treatment" for me. Those bastards kill more people than disease does. Haven't been to a Dr. for anything but a checkup in years, and won't go now at all. The last many encounters I've had have all been bad.

I would probably go in for broken bones, or trauma treatment, but sign myself out as soon as I could walk out, in order to avoid the worst exposure to untreatable infections and medical mistakes. The medical profession has killed my aunt (needless mastectomy at AGE 94), 2 cousins (both with allergic reactions to meds for asthma), nearly killed my with with an overdose of allergy medication, killed my wife's sister with drugs for MS, killed my sister with drugs for epilepsy, but my Dad got away from them, telling them all to go p___ up a rope, when he had heart problems. Lived many years after, and died of something else. I escaped after a surgeon wanted to remove the joint in my shoulder, based on SOMEONE ELSES X-ray.

Don't get me started.................. My wife is an RN, and saw it from the inside.

[dunewalker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('patience', '
')Don't get me started...

[patience]

Well, really, all this is why my wife left nursing long ago and got a degree in business and accounting. The clincher was when she saw a woman hemorrhage to death after having a baby, and the Doctor was drunk on his ass, didn't know what to do, and argued with the frantic nurses that HE was the DOCTOR and HE would make the decisions. Right.

The straight skinny on the mastectomy was that her semi-retarded son was terrified into convincing her to do it. Because the Dr. was late on his payment on the Beemer...... (Local news gets around in a small town.)