JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for August 02, 2015

What did Captain Ruiz mean when she said “I expect the two you of there”?

Wow! When you think about the irony- that basically, the stuff that “escapes” unwanted, from factory smokestacks, gets “wanted” by many people, and willingly gets put into our lungs…

Has anybody noticed all the nurses out behind the clinic or office smoking? I once had a chiropractor who reeked! You would think they would know better!

Drug addiction often leads to death.Especially if the drug is nicotine or ethanol.Enough survive long enough to convince others to try the drugs.A pusher’s dream drug.

I thought it was guns. Playing with, handling, letting the grandkid find them under the bed…

Common sense made me quit years ago…at age 12.

This should be used to warn of the dangers of cigarettes.

See today’s “Lio” for an alternative to cigarettes.

When I was still in cardiology we had one doctor who simply refused to treat patients who continued to smoke after two months warning. “You’re trying to kill yourself, and asking me to cure you. You’ve decided to keep on going; if that’s your choice, so be it.”

This is why so few of the World War II generation live nowadays. The tobacco companies so hooked our men and women in uniform on cigarettes in such a big way that a huge percentage of them died in the 1980’s and 1990’s.

The wife and I quit in the 80’s after seeing our daughter in an oxygen tent at 18 months of age due to asthma and allergies. She looked like an animal in that plastic covered cage. Scared us straight. Now my son, a smoker for 10+ years, is in his 6th week of quitting using Nicoderm lozenges and family support.

One of my two best childhood friends was on oxygen when I last saw her. She said that sometimes she wanted a cigarette so badly she could stand on her head, but quit when she finally got hooked up to the oxygen. She died at age 63. Her mother died four years earlier, at age 93. (While confirming her mom’s age, I just noted that her sister recently died at age 91.)One of the men who went to Thanksgiving camp in the woods with us was always smoking. Now he’s not, because he’s on oxygen. He’s 80, but that’s at or below the average age of men in that group, and they’re all well and living, except for one who quit after smoking. My father was a two-packs-daily man, and he died from a blood clot at age 59. His sister lived to be 86. Tobacco is a great thief.

fbjsr: Probably affects math ability too. WW-II ended in 1945. That is 35 years from 1980, not 75. 55 years from 2000. You weren’t even in the ball park.

I hope Ashburn is paying attention. I’m assuming that Ruiz in the first panel is referring to their attending Barnes’ funeral.