Consider this a tribute to the game-changers among us.
Not all the changes we call “political correctness” or “conventional wisdom” are bad. Some are lifesaving and possible evidence that we may be gaining some sense.
Smoking is good for you? Give me a break.
This week someone posted on Facebook an old cigarette ad in which Ronald Reagan, “film star,” is touting the advantages and pleasures of Chesterfield cigarettes. Many an ad from the 1940s brags about the medical advantages of their brand of tobacco over their competition.
After burying millions of smokers, we no longer allow those advertisements with their false claims.
Any day now, the New Orleans City Council will pass a resolution outlawing smoking in bars and taverns in our city. That’s the final straw, and about the last place smokers can puff away other than in their home, their car, or their yard.
As a cancer survivor, I say “Good riddance.” And don’t come in here with protestations that “well, non-smokers have the freedom not to breathe the toxic air.” How ridiculous.