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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

'Sounds like the same reasoning a neighbor's grandkid used when I approached 
him as he was casually and openly smoking dope beside the backyard pool of my 
neighbor's house.  
I said something to the effect that that stuff was bad for him.  He replied 
that it was pure Humboldt County grown with none of all of the crap put in 
cigarettes.  I then told him that what I meant was that it was bad for him 
because in two days, upon returning, his grandfather was going to find out 
and kill him.  
He said that he couldn't believe I would rat him out ( I guess I looked 
cool).  I told him that I wouldn't have to,  that all of the other neighbors 
would.

Anyway, I helped him out---   I told him to walk to the corner store and buy 
some "roll your own" type tobacco, and roll a couple of cigarettes.  That 
way, he would just be lectured , but not beaten and disowned by his 
grandfather. I agreed to dispose of his stash. 

I never told anyone --not my neighbor, or even my wife, about the 
incident..Maybe I changed that kid's life for the  life for the better that 
day.  But, My wife still tells people about the day she came home and found 
me sitting in the dark with nine empty sardine cans and an empty box of ritz 
crackers ......... reading the Good Book....bobford

--- On Tue, 6/24/08, WF Smith <mogrits AT gmail.com> wrote:


> > There are 599 chemicals added to cigarettes and those
> in
> > combo with nicotine
> > create 4,000 chemicals when cigarettes burn.
> >
> > So, if you want to inhale benzene, formaldehyde,
> ammonia,
> > acetone, arsenic
> > and hydrogen cyanide, just to name a few, well, I
> think that
> > might be what
> > makes the modern cigarette a tad more harmful than a
> pipe full of raw
> > tobacco that is passed around amongs a large group of
> folks.
> >
> > Lynda
> 
> mmmmmmm! I must have been addicted to 598 of those
> chemicals myself, because
> after 2.5 yrs there are still times I long for a cigarette.
> Nicotine is a
> good natural drug with some side effects.
> 
> How's it going down there in Georgia, Bev and Ron?
> 
> Warren