/lit/ - Literature

>>11651895
From 1500 until the 1970s, tobacco impacted the development and progression of Western Civilization, with most significant figures being tobacco smokers. There isn't a contradiction between tobacco smoking and traditionalism. Nearly half a millennium of cultural impact is enough to warrant some sort of endearment to it, even if it is harmful.
I occasionally buy some pipe tobacco and a cheap corn cob, and as I smoke, ponder when this vestige will be confined to the yards of a few backyard hobbyists or the pages of history altogether.

Tobacco being inherently harmful, at least as a carcinogen, remains an unsettled issue. In the experimental studies involving healthy animals, the tobacco group fails to exhibit carcinogenesis at statistically significant rates above control. This of course contradicts the epidemiological studies.
William Whitby's books provide a critical examination of the epidemiological studies. Indeed they're old books but their criticism applies to the studies of today as the design and methodology and reliance purely on epidemiological studies remains the same. At the very least, it's interesting to examine and temporarily entertain criticism of anti-smoking narratives because it's such rare stance.

http://wispofsmoke.net/PDFs/Whitby.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/document/44685607/Smoking-is-Good-for-You-William-T-Whitby

The reason people are fundamentally uncomfortable with tobacco is because it is associated with death, which brings one to ponder mortality, their own and of others. Life, much like cigar in hand, has a beginning and an end; the smoke created will fade. You can quantify the years all you like but no matter what you do, it will end. The question of buying a few years is irrelevant when confronting this unpleasant reality, and is just an attempt to sweep our looming impermanence under the rug. Memento mori.

>>10917821

this makes a little more sense now gotcha

repent! the life of enjoyment and ennui coincide into glares! oh the glares! and oh the glares back!

right there with you. make a good latte for me.

>>10913831

holy shit this guy doesn't enjoy his tuesday crayons hahaha

oh my god I totally have one okay one second let me get it

what do you call it when you look at a page with words on it

fucking reading holy shit what does any of this matter when you're rich

The Eternal Goofball

suck my imprint
you not so silly
unbelievably Pavlov creatures
laughing when I give the cue.
My face stretches to erase your discomfort
and my hue changes to fit the needs of your fantasy
just kidding
but that's what you need yourself to think

>>10714490

You sound like kind of a cunt too. Usually people who dislike the book see traits that they despise in themselves in the main character.

No offense

>>10708181

is it try hard because it's tripe, or is it tripe because it's try hard?