In the past few years, I have heard several discussions on television regarding smoking cigarettes. Public places have started putting bans on indoor smoking. Cigarette prices continue to rise.
And yet, recently, I find a few cases of an underground smoking movement perhaps in the works.
First, I was shooting pool with a coworker at a downtown pool hall(overpriced) when I heard the owners offering free Camel cigarettes to those who presented their IDs at some special counter. FREE cigarettes? Like my clothes, nose and lungs were not full of smoke from the atmosphere already?
Second, I was out walking today and found several Newport cigarette packages(all the same white and teal color) scattered on the ground. Not all in one place. One here. One there. But, in a four-mile radius, I came across over a half-dozen. I highly doubt someone robbed a gas station or some other seller. So, what gives? And, why just this brand(package)? Is there something I should know about for the sake of my health? Is there a momentum/undercurrent competing with those sanctioning the use of cigarettes? Is a war brewing?
Just something about which to think.
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