Swirls of cigarette smoke
For @mariannewest in #freewrite
When I watched old movies, I am surprised at how much do people smoked. Swirls of cigarette smoke we suspended in the air. The thoughtful protagonist was delivering some cool line after taking a drag. Even Fred and Barney were featured in Winston commercial.
Then something happened in the mid-nineties. All of a sudden, there was a big class actions suit against cigarette companies. It was given a huge public resonance, the court proceedings were reported in the media, were televised, or so I remember. The cigarette companies tried to fight it with all their financial might but lost. This was the triumph of progress, or so it seemed.
A little bit later I found out from an equitant attorney that it wasn’t all that cut and dry. The United States produces 95% of all the World’s layers. IV League schools pumping them every year and other multiple colleges around the country. When each new energetic litter of lawyers comes out to the hunting ground, they need to find a victim to whom they could pour their righteous anger. In the nineties, it turned out to be cigarette companies and the rest is history... or so they say.)
smoking used to be cool and I am glad that it is not anymore.
Hopefull that new litter of lawyers will go after the GMO industry next, and all that have reduced agriculture to the usage of tons of chemicals instead of building the soil.
I also like them to go after everyone that produces "food" that is nothing but empty calories. People are getting very sick with all kinds of problems (including depression we now know starts in the gut) and food, or rather, non food is a huge culprit.
And that was way more than you wanted to hear from me LOL
Me too. I hope there is much money to be made going alone this endeavor. In that case, the new lawyer litter will be all over the GMO industries. )))
Hello, I was surprised to see the flintstones smoking ...
Hello, Really... Times has changed. )
I also remember everyone smoking in old movies and all of the cigarette commercials on T.V. What a different world we live in today.
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That's 4 sure. Different world. )))