According to a recent American Medical Association study, LGBTQ people smoke cigarettes at much higher rates than their heteronormative counterparts. Now, this shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. The lives of gays and trans folk can be very stressful at times, and tobacco does seem to have a calming effect on the nerves. Unfortunately, the overall impact smoking has on health--everything from emphysema to heart disease to, most notoriously, lung cancer--negates any temporary relief to the nervous system. I do wish more queer people would just kick the habit.
Now, this homophobe's recent promotion isn't bound to help matters any. In fact, I suddenly have the urge to light one up!
I have the urge to light one up, too. Under his ass.
ReplyDeleteYou might set his head on fire, Mitchell.
DeleteOr at least his brains.
DeleteDon't bogart that joint my friend
ReplyDeletePass it over to me - Fraternity of Man
Hi, Kirk!
First came Regis and Kelly. Now, there's an even more entertaining show - Mike and Kelly. "Deeply religious" and "devout Christians," (Don't it make you proud?) the Johnsons are darlings of the conservative right wing and have expressed strong anti-gay sentiments. Yet, I found shocking evidence that the couple really knows how to swing:
“She’s spent the last couple of weeks on her knees in prayer to the Lord. And, um, she’s a little worn out,” Johnson joked. “We all are.”
Go, Kelly, GO!
Have a great week, good buddy Kirk!
Shady, that may explain the shouts of "Oh, God!!"
DeleteWhen I first came out, practically every LGBTQ person I knew smoked, including me! Oh, those smoky gay bars! That has certainly changed over the years -- now I only have one LGBTQ friend (and one straight friend) who still smoke. I myself quit shortly after coming out for health reasons.
ReplyDeleteDebra, it didn't matter if a person smoked or not, they would still walk out of the bar smelling like they did.
DeleteHi Kirk, Sometimes I think I am losing my perspective. I know there were horrible people who attained high positions in the U.S. in the past, but was there always such a high percentage of absolute scums-of-the-earth who cannot even make the faintest claim of fairness, intelligence, humanity, or broad representation?
ReplyDelete--Jim
p.s. Cigarettes are like covid--they are always bad, but I don't mind so much when certain types of people are affected. But even then, the rest of us suffer from second-hand contamination.
As far as Congress goes Jim, you'd have to go the McCarthy Era. What's galling about the era we're presently in, is that Mike Johnson was a COMPROMISE choice.
DeleteSo you now have a Speaker but not a desirable one. That may make the Democrats job a little easier.
ReplyDeleteMaybe, Andrew, maybe, but the Democrats back in 2016 thought Donald Trump was the weakest possible candidate to go up against Hillary Clinton. Look what happened. It doesn't pay to get too overconfident.
DeleteI never smoked but I've been around enough second hand smoke (both my parents smoked) that I probably have some risk. I bowled several times a week and bowling alleys were notorious for getting your clothes all stunk up.
ReplyDeleteMy parents smoked, too, Mike, and in my 20s and 30s I went to my share of bars and clubs where the interiors were just fogs of tobacco smoke. Funny (if you're able to laugh between the coughs) how common it was at one time.
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