an interesting article from Cigar Rights of America – yet another “No Smoking in the Park” ban, this time proposed by the most Honorable Mayor Bloomberg of New York.
By Theodore J. King, CRA Guest Columnist
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is now proposing banning smoking in city parks. There was a poll in New York Newsday about this proposed ban.
The poll asked: Is it a good idea because smoking is a filthy habit, even outdoors, or is it wrong because it’s in the open air, or do you know?
September 14th, 17% were in favor of the ban, and 81% were against it. The next day, the percentage in favor of the ban went down from 17% to 15%, and those against it went up to 84%!!
Bravo! I don’t know about you, but the reports of smoking bans here and there are really getting on my next nerve. As women cigar smokers, perhaps our attention span waivers (I doubt that), but male or female, we’ve been fighting this battle against cigar smoking for quite some time, if not down through the ages….
I thought the latter part of this article was most comforting, if not more worthy of the report…
“It is good to see there are still people who use common sense, which fact brings me to Gilbert Keith (G.K.) Chesterton (1874-1936), a British writer, philosopher, and Christian apologist who wrote about common sense, including the common sense of smoking cigars.”
Mr. King goes on to further write, that this “fascinating man who wrote more than 100 books and Father Brown mysteries about a Jesuit priest who is as clever as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot but a lot more humble. G. K. Chesterton also wrote some 4,000 newspaper articles.”
“G.K. Chesterton was a strong advocate of Christian morality but was by no means a dour puritan, and he often had a cigar in his mouth. As Dale Ahlquist, the president of The American Chesterton Society, noted in his book, Common Sense: 101 Lessons from G. K. Chesterton, Ignatius Press (2006), he called the cigar, “My muse…Some men write with a pencil, others with a typewriter. I write with my cigar.”
and sir, Some women may write with a pencil, others with a keyboard, but I – just as you, write with my cigar!
Longest Ashes, Damsel…
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