Things that don't make sense...???

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This is from an ashtray sitting on my porch (no, I don't smoke but one of my roomies do...eww). What is going on with this snail? Can they get addicted to nicotine too? Perhaps he just wanted a soft place to sleep? Phillip Morris has found a new crowd to market to!!

Great picture.

Maybe snails get some sort of buzz off the chemicals?

That is an awesome picture, L.

I don't know why.. it's just so real feeling.

whats with your roomie anyway, why don't he smoke them all down? some of them are barely halfway....

By not finishing all those cigarettes, her roomie has to go out and buy more and is thus stimulating the economy; it is a America-hating Communist who would think otherwise!

I love snails.

The roommate in question is female not male, that is prolly the main reason for the half-smoked smokes and why most of them appear to be "light" cigs of some sort.

As a smoker, she is one of many costing the public billions each year in medical costs, so she would be a socialist, no?

This still does not explain the curious actions of the snail!

You America-hating Red!!!

ear-sighted wrote:As a smoker, she is one of many costing the public billions each year in medical costs, so she would be a socialist, no?

Actually, smoker = shorter projected lifespan = LOWER costs. There've been studies done.

I don't know, I had a grand father in law that lived to like 89 years of age, smoking a pack a day.

Well, I don't know if we are saving money since people are dying earlier but I do know this is a fact (but of course we could say the same on many issues and how people knowingly don't take of themselves and make the rest of us pay for it)

but...

according to consumer affairs...and this is just a portion of the article...

"According to the research, New York smokers top the list, costing
Medicaid $1.5 billion each year. Wyoming had the least Medicaid
expenditures due to current smokers, but they still cost the program
$15 million each year. The report showed that North Carolinians who
smoke cost Medicaid $294 million each year."

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/11/tobacco_cost.html

Yeah, but is that really because of smoking-related health problems, or something else? Remember, correlation =/= causation.

Also, obesity costs more than smoking.

Ash wrote:I don't know, I had a grand father in law that lived to like 89 years of age, smoking a pack a day.

well cigarettes now are very different from then...

i use a pipe and danish tobacco, pipes aren't as bad... and i stimulate the local economy

oh and unlike obama i'm a real socialist

well, it's interesting cause I have asthma. And cigarette smoke sparks up my breathing problems... but when I lived at a friends house, his dad used to smoke some natural pipe tobacco.. and I never had any asthma problems from it. Must be some of the modern additives they use in cigaretttes that really gets me.

Donald effin' Duck wrote:Yeah, but is that really because of smoking-related health problems, or something else? Remember, correlation =/= causation.

Also, obesity costs more than smoking.

The article I mentioned was specifically talking about medical issues caused by smoking, not so much other issues. I agree, on the obesity issue, which is why I mentioned that smoking is obviously not the only way people are knowingly creating preventable medical problems.

Most cigs are loaded with chemicals. Pipes, depending on what you are smoking of course, are prolly not packed with killer chemicals like cigs...But that is just a guess, I don't know much about pipe smoking tobacco.