Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 28, 2021

Vietnamese love their cigarettes. All Mr. Bud is doing is asking them to switch brands.

Is it my imagination, or is he starting to look more like Roland Hedley?

Old cartoon, but still great and still relevant.

Although, most of the same people who LIED about tobacco and lung cancer in those days have now moved on to LYING about climate change.

I remember the Last Week Tonight show on this subject. The industry just won’t quit. Last night I even had a craving after 12 years of not smoking.

…and curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git. (JL)

Waiting for Comrade Phred to show up

Trudeau didn’t name him “butts” by accident.

One of the best things my Dad ever did for me was to get me a job working on a tobacco farm for two summers, when I was a teenager. It is hard, very hot labor. Nicotine gets in your sweat, then in your eyes. The tar from the leaves coats your clothing. We literally had to scrape it off our jeans at night.

Even though both my parents were heavy smokers, I have absolutely no interest in being associated with the substance in any form (or farm).

I started rolling Gauloises hitchhiking through Canada, just out of boredom. Quit 35 years ago with the aid of hypnotism. Smoked Dunhills toward the end

That’d be my least favorite missionary position…

Be sure to convert them to Christianity too while you’re doing good missionary deeds.

Shoulda chugged their drinks, then leave.

I quit smoking in the mid 1970’s, and I still, from time to time, dream that I’ve started again. When I wake up, though, I don’t feel like having a smoke, and this being so, I really enjoy those dreams!

Does Mr. Jay appear in this series of strips?

5 years ago, while driving an hour after a visit, reached into my shirt pocket for a pack of smokes, after not smoking for 15 years. So, 20 years on and still cautious.

That poor hat…

I’ve never smoked (anything) and never wanted to. Best thing I’ve ever done for myself. Now I am 76 and still going pretty strong!

When W.C. Fields&Charlie Mc Carthy feuded on the radio in the 1930’s,they were sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes,

Fields would make repeated references to an imaginary son named “Chester”.

The Madison Avenue “geniuses” finally caught on that Chester Fields was the name of a competing cigarette brand.