Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 21, 2024

Excellent. Still the shyster problem though.

One small step for Bob, a great leap forward for mankind.

From the flight attendant’s little humorous speech: “People caught smoking in the restrooms will be reseated on the patio. That’s located out on the wing.”

On Tik tok I follow a young comedian that following one of his jokes smoked a juul, the abnormal deep inhale….that should be illegal to show on the internet. BUT I guess free speech wins out

I’ve seen this cartoon or ones very similar for nigh on 40 years.

Got a nice LOL. Thanks!

The smoking lounge has a high cealing, that often leaks.

So long! Fare well! Auf Wiederstein! Adeau!

Have a nice trip! See you next fall!

And good riddance!

Knowing how some smokers treat outdoor smoking areas, he will stand inside and hold his cigarette hand outside and pretend that it’s okay.

Oh, now, come on – that’s going a bit too far .. ! Let ’em kill themselves in their own time.

Their insurance went down as soon as they implemented this!

The door-to-nowhere is a really old gag for comics.

At the entrance of many restaurants in Germany you have to walk through a smoke wall to get in.

I used to be a heavy smoker, and now I hate the smell, even outside, and (unfairly) no longer ever understand it. It has NO positive side, and tons of negatives, the LEAST of which is the fact that it makes you stink.

obviously not a 12 step program.

More like cold turkey or just…..cold, on a slab at the morgue

The Smoking ‘Lunge’. “One Small Step For [a] Man …”

This alternative shows there really is no alternative if one wishes for a long life

The smoking lounge at my husband’s job had a vent to the outside; the color of the smoke pouring out would make you ill. For reasons which never made a lick of sense, the cigarette machines were in the hallway outside the room. One man couldn’t wait to get into the lounge and lit up in the hallway. Smoke alarms, fire department, evacuations, and a very short talk with HR.

Proposition —

In view of the fact that tobacco is the second deadliest drug available, being responsible for approximately 20% of drug deaths,

… and in view of the fact that there are no positive effects to offset the bad effects,

… let the penalty for growing, manufacturing, distributing, and/or selling tobacco products in any form be life imprisonment or penalty of death.

I approve of this message.

when I first started working in an office they had all the smokers together and you could see the cloud literally hanging over their cubicles.

Then they banned it in the office and you’d see people outside on smoking breaks. ok in good weather but when they were huddling against the wind rain and snow in a Connecticut winter you’d think they’d consider quitting

can’t get a bigger hint than that… but some people are just too dumb to realize it. :j

According to the American Lung Association, smoking is the #1 preventable cause of death in the US — killing around 480,000 people each year. I don’t know whether that figure includes the 41,000 deaths due to 2nd hand smoke.

According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [NIAAA]. over 178,000 deaths are linked to excessive alcohol use.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, nearly 108,000 people died from illicit and/or prescription drug overdoses in 2022 [84,000 were due to opioids].

Do we need to start focusing more attention on legal substance abuse? Or maybe we need to figure out why so many people feel compelled to [over]use them?

Best hint ever!

I remember when 30 years ago restaurant owners complained that banning smoking in their establishments would destroy their businesses. Given the long wait to get a table, and restaurants every 100 yards, they are doing fine …

If people are that inconsiderate they should be put on the do not fly list. That would stop the smoke poisening the air.

Hard to think that when you went to a restaurant, there used to be ashtrays at every table.

Some folks just can’t take The Hint.

Everybody I knew who smoked passed away in their 60s.

If only this were so… ad vaping to the sign…

Oh yeah, I remember those days when the area to be allowed to smoke kept getting smaller and smaller. Thank goodness – helped me to stop smoking back in 1992.

Definitely a very pointed hint.

Cigarettes are a blight on the whole human race.

A man is a monkey with one in his face.

Take warning my friend, take warning dear brother.

A fire’s on one end, a fool’s on the ‘thuter.

- Cigareets, Whuskey And Wild, Wild Women

The amount of stink generated by a single cigarette is amazing. Cigarette butts are the most littered item in the world. And there are the smokers in cars with their cigarette out the window. You like the smell so much, hotbox that thing. It’s a filthy habit.

I quit in 2004. I don’t know how anyone can afford to light up these days!

Same result, just a little quicker.

Here is the absurd thing: On the one hand buying and smoking cigarettes is still legal, but on the other hand you have to be on an airplane’s wing to smoke them.

GREAT cartoon, but I hope there’s a net to catch the poor smokers!

On the other side of the door should be my favorite outside door sign: “And stay out.”

I think this is a rerun but still awesome.

To quote my grandfather, " It’s not the coughin’ that carries you often, it’s the coffin they carry you off in"

I smoked cigars for 40 years; and quit 13 years ago. The anti-smoking campaign(s) were/are very heavy handed, but I have to admit the anti zealots had the grace to actually make the figures available for those who wanted to calculate how dangerous smoking really is — the total population, the estimated number of those who smoke, the number of those who die yearly from tobacco related illness , and their average ages at death are easily found, and from that the actual danger posed by tobacco use may be calculated.

I was driving, looking down trying to find my cigarettes, and ran over a pedestrian. Smoking kills.

Said I’d quit when smokes hit a buck a pack….ended up quittin’at a buck and a half…..smoke free now for over 35 yrs…..

Most smokers would smoke at that door and throw their butts onto the sidewalk below.

What Fun! Hate! Hate! Hate! What Fun!

And yet, there are still so many that can’t take it. Seems like a cartoon created by an EX smoker !

Oh, that’s waaaaay too funny, Wiley!

There’s a scene in “Friends” that I can attest to happens in real life. I used to work in the IT department for a major global food manufacturing company with the US headquarters in Glendale, California. Our CIO was a smoker, and those who would go outside on smoke breaks with her frequently got choice assignments and preferential treatment over those of us who did not smoke.

You could smoke in the university of Washington library in 1975

This has the same effect as smoking, just quicker.

Puts new meaning on “stepping out for a quick smoke!”

When hanging out listening to albums with my hippie friends in the 70’s, when someone put on Commander Cody “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)”, all my smoker pals would spontaneously light up. But those were the most fun friends, and it is a great song.

It’s okay to smoke, as long as you’re on fire.

After I joined the Air Force in ‘74 I picked up the smoking habit, it was pretty common back then. I didn’t smoke much, but I did smoke (maybe a pack a week).

Between 1986 and 1989, while I was stationed at the Pentagon, a rule came down that smoking inside Federal buildings was no longer allowed. By that time I had switched to smoking a pipe and a 10 minute smoke break just isn’t convenient with a pipe so that was also when I quit smoking altogether. It was easy enough for me since I wasn’t really addicted like most folks that smoke.

Funny thing (sorta) is that cigarette smoke doesn’t particularly bother me but since most folk have stopped smoking I can now smell all the over cologners and the folks that swim in perfume and those smells makes me ill. Never really noticed that kind of thing when everyone smoked.

In my last job before retiring we had a guy that swam in something stinky and I had to resort to wearing a painters (n95) mask at my desk (some distance from his) so I could breath. I knew it was a bit passive aggressive but I also knew that was easier than trying to get him to stop. We had a second story office and you could smell he was in the office at both the front and back doors on ground level.

That reminds me of the door in the Winchester House!

So glad you could drop in. Or, tune in, turn on, drop out.

My best comeback line:

“Do you mind if I smoke?”

“Why, are you on fire?

the navy solved it quickly. you lost rank, money, time, and then canned.

Have an open dumpster exactly below.

Take up chewing tobacco. Gross ’em out instead of smoking them out. And be sure to put your spit cup where someone might take a sip for bonus points.

Make it quick!

The law about smoking in the workplace changed in the early 80’s. It was too late for my friends Dad. He never smoked but his office was an open concept. He develop lung cancer~ second hand smoke…

Have you seen the old video where a guy was about to go out on a high rise balcony full of people to smoke? It collapsed just before he went through the door.

One last: I was visiting my late wife in the Cancer Ward. Doctors and Nurses were going out on a balcony to smoke…The mind boggles.

Let’s put that solution on the November ballot