I can haz lung disease?
I don't smoke. Never saw the need. If I want to risk my life, all I need do is go for a walk when the sun goes down (okay, I'll be honest - when the clouds change from light grey to dark grey) or do what I've done. Get married and allow the child to be brought to term. The timing on that one is pretty good. Sprog with No Name is due in late October, so the Dume tradition will continue.
The Professor visited yesterday. He's been absent for some time but then he's never been one to worry about that. I think, when people are out of his sight, he forgets they exist at all. Anyway, apparently he gave up smoking but then started again. I wasn't at all surprised by that. He's done the same thing many, many times.
This time it's different. He has a battery-powered pretend cigar and he claims it's very good. I did note the absence of tobacco stench when he smoked it and was surprised to find the ashtray still empty when he left. It doesn't burn at all.
He even let me have a go. No, he wasn't forcing tobacco addiction on me. He had an insert that makes a smoke-like stuff but which has no nicotine in it. It doesn't produce real smoke either. I could have a lot of fun with that.
I can also have a lot of fun with the whole idea of addiction. It is, after all, a remarkably effective way of controlling a population. The thinking hat is about to get a serious workout.
And of course, the end of this month will see another Alienskin issue and I need a new and different idea for an article.
Inhaling your own control drug, voluntarily, might be a good angle to work with.
