You don’t need to be a surgeon general to know that fat inactive kids make fat inactive adults creating a burden for the rest of us and the public medical system.
Beside that, who wants half of the population to be unhealthy and unhappy? It’s funny to watch fat people struggle up stairs and take up two seats on a train, but at times it’s inconvenient and sometimes I want to slap that cheeseburger or bucket of chips out of their chubby hands.
Says it all really. Oz has made the life changing decison to give up the deathsticks. As a result, I have been sick as a dog all weekend. Stuck on the couch with a brain-numbing headache, overhwelming lethargy and a cough that refuses to get nasty (you know you’re getting better when you’re coughing up furballs). I thought I’d have a more serious crack this time around, so I dragged my sorry ass of my couch and went to my local pharmacy to buy some nicotine patches. The Nicorette brand, just in case you were wondering.
My quest for better breathing really isn’t the point of this post. The Daydreamer has already pointed out I only have myself to blame for smoking so now I’m just correcting earlier mistakes (very supportive - lucky I don’t have a drug addiction with a mate like that). In my packet o’ patches, there was a wonderful little booklet full of information about my purchase: how to use the patch, how the patch works, blah blah blah. The section that caught my interest was When you must NOT use Nicorette Patch.
Do not use Nicorette patch if:
• you are pregnant or intend to become pregnant
• you are breastfeeding or intend to breastfeed
• you have heart disease
• you have had a recent heart attack or stroke
• you have a long term skin disorder
• you are a non-smoker, or smoke occasionally
• you are under 18 years old
• you are allergic to nicotine
Why would a non-smoker want to use a nicotine patch? Who honestly gives up smoking before they turn 18? If you’re allergic to nicotine, surely you would have figured it out when you lit up a smoke? Maybe my brain has gone a little soft without the smokes but I honestly would have thought these last three exclusions were rather self explanatory. Though my information booklet was kind enough to let me know ‘there is not enough information about the use of the nicotine patch in children’. I’d love to see the consent forms for that study.
I may be a little late off the mark here, as it supposedly happened last year, but someone just brought it to my attention, and i didn’t know whether to laugh or ponder the issues surrounding man’s constant plight to conquer nature. I wanted this to be true so badly.
“Spectators cheered as entire Cambodian Midget Fighting League squared off against African Lion……..”
“…..The fight was called in only 12 minutes, after which 28 fighters were declared dead, while the other 14 suffered severe injuries including broken bones and lost limbs, rendering them unable to fight back……” (more…)
