My name is Sandra, and I’m a smoker.
There. That’s out of the way.
I started smoking when I was thirteen, but strongly suspect that had anyone stuck a fag in my gob at the age of, say, three, I would have puffed away quite happily.
Even when I’m not smoking … and I’ve gone as long as 14 years without lighting up habitually … I’m a smoker, and although I’ve attempted to examine the motives behind my infatuation with filthy cancer sticks I have yet to come up with the ultimate attraction.
Until today.
This report from the BBC does strike a chord, I must admit. Apparently, my addiction has something to do with the fact that I’m pissed off a lot, and if I could get over that, ciggies would have less appeal.
Researchers hypothesised smokers were more likely to be people prone to anger and said tackling this could be a vital part of smoking cessation services.
“Anger management” lessons are being considered for inclusion in stop smoking services by the NHS in Britain, and I think that’s a plan and a half.
I’m wondering, however, how well those lessons would take in a world where this story shares the page with the calmy-downy-stub-out-that-butt article.
Plans to promote medical treatment for homosexuality at a religious conference have been criticised by doctors.
The event will hear from prominent American psychologist Dr Joseph Nicolosi who said he had helped many people to become heterosexual.
… Dr Nicolosi said he had been helping people to “increase their heterosexual potential” for 25 years, and put his success rate among men at about two out of three.
He said he was offering a choice for people who were unhappy being gay.
Yeah … I know. I just jumped from fags to fags. Got a problem with that?
Anybody got a light … ?
A collection of my short stories:
I'm in this one, too ...
And I'm in here, as well ...
Paradise Preoccupied 
When I jump from Fag to Fag they call that fear of a relationship!
In my case, it’s just a fun night out …
that too!!
[…] Original post by Sandra Hanks Benoiton […]
I always wince when I see those people talking about how they can “make” someone be NOT GAY ANYMORE.
I don’t think one can make someone heterosexual any more than you can make someone homosexual. It’s not an illness. It just is what it is.
But that scares the shit out of the fundies, so they have to keep on plugging their Gay-Off Treatment Plans.
Ugh.
Idiots.
Light one for me too, Sandra.
is there something homophobic Godsquad bigots might smoke in order to help them augment their tolerance potential? ( only if they want to embrace the ways of reality, of course)
Perhaps you could take up Growl Singing when your anger takes hold instead of a cig????
WTF? This gives me gren and I feel like lighting one up after having stopped 7 years ago!
Grrrrrrrr!
How do you do… FAGS
“We want to help you”
What? If vilifying large groups of society for no reason, ostracising them to the cold climate, bombarding them with nightmarish obscene imagery of cancerous lungs and diseases while already threatening them with death, illness and deformed babies and, AND charging those people more and more money for the privilege of doing that sounds, like a heap of help. Sounds like an invasion of our civil liberties to live, without judgment. Considering the smoking masses make up 1.1 billion of us or 17% of the worlds population. I think that makes a pretty strong, probably not healthy, minority.
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