We are pro-smoking here at The Scrapbook. We do not smoke ourselves, and to be honest the smell of stale cigarette smoke makes us gag, but we viscerally disapprove of the way in which nicotine users have been browbeaten, shamed, and hounded out of polite society over the last several decades.
How refreshing to find, then, in the latest London Spectator, evidence that smoking can save your life. It’s true. The magazine’s associate editor Rod Liddle explains:
Of course, the liberal scolds’ answer to Liddle’s claim that smoking saved his life is that guns must be taken away, too. No smoking, no guns, everybody’s safe. Except that if you tromp around in the forests of New Hampshire in autumn without a gun, you might be eaten by a bear. Maybe we should get rid of bears, too.
