Itty Bitty Hooves

Equal Rights

Bob keeps asking me to quit smoking. Not in this lifetime most likely. Actually I have quit a couple of times over the past 30 years (yes, 30 years and that’s 30 smoking years). Those brief intermissions usually last anywhere from 6 months to once a whopping 2 years. What really gets me is that when you go back to it (and for most it is a question of when not if you go back, although some people do manage to quit for life) you are right back to where you were when you quit. It’s not like starting over, it’s just picking back up where you left off. I know why he wants me to quit. He wants me around, and that’s sweet, but what are you going to do? It’s not a good habit, it’s not clean, it’s not nice, but it’s not the worst one. I don’t drink, do drugs, or play around. I smoke, that’s it. It is hard to find smokers life insurance though. Everyone from the business world to the health industry has it in for smokers nowadays. Funny though it hasn’t hurt the sale of tobacco much. I really doubt it will. Thankfully there are still some insurance companies that will insure us evil smokers. Sometimes it seems like ‘equal rights’ are only the priviledge of those that follow the system, so it’s equal rights for who they say has equal rights.