Kodiak Tobacco & More

All Right, St. Louis has adopted a smoking ban for all restaurants and bars, with only minimum allowances. I am so sick and tired of my legal rights dwindling down, I am fed up. I cannot fathom the reason non-smokers have such a sharp opinion on what we smokers want to do. Everyone knows that smoking is unhealthy, but I made a conscience decision when I began smoking, alert to the fact it was unhealthy. Just because non-smokers want me to cease, won’t mean that it is going to happen. Smoking in pubs has been a privilage, but most restaurants have a special smoking room. If you don’t want to inhale the smoke, don’t eat in the smoking room, you are not coerced to sit in smoking. And as far as the workers of these bars that argue they are affected by second hand smoke, I don’t believe it. I worked in the service industry for over 10 years, and I know that the majority of thefellow workers were smokers.  Doing business with the public, always, drives you to puff.  Personally, I have never overheard any non-smoking co-worker ever whine about smoking while at work in the smoking room. Putting a smoking restriction in restaurants and bars, ultimately will only save me money, for I will not eat out after the the new year.

I have choose this christmas to plead for basic Christmas Gifts that my wife can determine comfortably for me. My first choice, as always, is my favored cigar from dr-grabow-pipes.com. My wife doesn’t even have to leave the home, she can go online (I have all my favorites sites saved) and make out the order there. As far as anything else, she can go to the nearest retailer and pick out a gift. She debates every holiday that I am the most difficult guy to shop for. But we have been married for over 15 years! And if she doesn’t know the things I admire by now, I just don’t know. I continuously articulate every December, “I want smokes”, I smoke 1 or 2 per day, and that adds up. I bought a humidor for keeping my smokes, “what’s that for?” my wife askes. Well my love, it’s to keep my cigars green as grass. So, if you get me stogies for the holiday I can hold them in the humidor for a few months and remove one when I am wishing to savor one. Although I have to say, I got blessed with luck last year, my wife purchased me a lighter that was ingraved with my initials. The prior year, she got me a fishing pole, without thinking I said I wanted to go fishing again someday. Well, I went fishing once after that, but guess what, I still smoke 1-2 smokes a day. Well what do I want for christmas this year? I want Smokes, and anything else would just be an secondary pleasure.