January 24th, 2008
Transcript | From the porch, Jay and Lucas stare up at the night sky. |
| Jay | Uh, well, are you on the patch now? |
| Nate | No. Kinda gave up for a few days. I'm kind of afraid of failing again, but I think I might give it another go. |
| Jay | Oh. |
| Jay | Do you want me to check in on you sometimes? Just give you a call and see how it's going? |
| Nate | Y'know, I...sure. All right. (flicks aside cigarette.) Well, I'm done here. Let's go back inside. |
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January 24th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Tobacco ain’t crack, it’s our heritage. Cigarettes aren’t heroin, they’re just cigarettes. It ain’t no sin to smoke. Is this really all the comic is about? Why doesn’t Blondie develop an addiction to painkillers and internet porn?
January 25th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Thanks for commenting, John–it’s interesting to see an opinion differing from those of the comic’s characters. I’m curious now: what do you see as the benefits and drawbacks of smoking, and do you believe that in general the benefits outweigh the drawbacks? Or vice versa?
January 25th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I don’t see it so much in terms of benefits and drawbacks; I just see it as a quotidian delight that can be enjoyed in moderation, without slavish servitude or rigorous abstinence. There is no failure of morality in smoking or drinking in moderation; in fact, while one may certainly choose to avoid smoking, the harsh prohibition of the act strikes me as an unduly authoritarian consequence of the cult of the body, which exhorts us all to live a healthy life and watch what we eat and don’t smoke and do yoga and drink plenty of water, while either ignoring the life of the spirit completely or even advocating a life of pleasure-seeking within those body-loving guidelines.
It strikes me as an outside/inside of the cup situation.
January 27th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
So, if someone wants to quit smoking (for whatever reason) and they find that it is difficult, and that there is almost another person in them who doesn’t want to quit, you don’t think that addiction might possibly be sinful?
I don’t think smoking is bad in itself, and I enjoy a cigar or a pipe from time to time, but I think if it became an addiction, for me it would be a sin.
February 4th, 2008 at 12:19 am
I’m with Dwight on this, though perhaps not for the same reasons.