Strange Brew by John Deering for April 16, 2023

..Because if your dog doesn’t smoke, I’d call the fire department, because your house must be on fire.

However, his dog chews, so he gets second-hand spit.

The main reason I gave up smoking about 40 years ago was that it was inconsistent with my plan to live to be 104 years old. So far, so good.

Also it was a habit some people didn’t appreciate. Although I have to admit that when I did give it up some people didn’t notice and others said, “You didn’t smoke that much anyway.” I guess they figured two packs a day not to be “that much.”

But one of the prominent reasons was to legally cheat the government out of taxes. When I was in the military, I could get cigarettes as cheap as 25 cents a pack. The military “got woke” and changed that policy along with cheap liquor.

I now live in North Carolina which has one of the lowest tobacco taxes in the nation. I should move to New York or California or Washington State to save more money.

Washington State has am annual tax on electronic vehicles. That’s because their owners don’t pay tax on gasoline. I wonder if they will enact a tax on non-smokers.

I sense that she doesn’t believe him.

I think the doc has been smoking ‘something’.

My Dog Makes Cigars

I have trouble with some medico half the size of the Hindenberg telling me I need to lose weight. Yeah, I could stand to shed a few pounds, but this is the pot calling the kettle black.

He calls his dog “H.R. Pufnruff”.

Depends on whether he’s on fire.

The smoking questions are obviously healthcare related, but my doctor asks numerous lifestyle questions that are flat-out none of her beeswax, being only tangentially health-related. I know she’s being directed to ask nosy questions such as how many floors in my home, is there a gun in the house, and about my pets, that I shouldn’t have answered and in future will not.

He doesn’t smoke nor ever has it seems, just like me…..

Dogs smoked so you wouldn’t.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/663143

I knew a teen nicknamed Smoke Dog. He later said he didn’t smoke, but his dog did.