and I was thinking we were fighting for freedom
When one takes into account all the commercial force that the tobacco companies have brought to bear in our society over the years to promote brands of cigarettes, and all the lobbying they have done, and all the influence they have exerted on one Administration and one Congress after another, and when one reflects that although the total excess deaths among regular smokers since the time of the Surgeon Generals report in 1964 must be numbered in the hundreds of thousands, the tobacco and broadcasting people were nonetheless able for so long to persuade the House of Representatives to vote a ban on effective regulation of cigarette advertising on the air, this change is a remarkable one
But given the Japanese culture of showing empathy outwardly, smokers and non-smokers working around one another's sensitivities appears to be one way to go about it, besides strict enforcement regulation kicking in
At the same time, holding your cigarette a certain way can help add to your personality
Hector said that pirates and other seafaring people generally lashed the rudder to something or other, and hauled in the main top-jib, during severe squalls, and thought we ought to try to do something of the kind
