My brother-in-law gave me a little lecture at our family reunion about smoking.
I will agree smoking contributes to a lot of diseases as people age. However, cigarettes never made me stupid like alcohol or illegal drugs.
People who use alcohol or illegal drugs know they cause them to do things they would not normally do. Some of those things are dangerous. Some of those things can kill or injure them, family or friends or innocent strangers.
Stupidity from a drunk or illegal drug user can mangle, maim or kill people at any age. Smoking or fast foods usually only kill the user after many years of use.
So, smoking and fast foods can contribute to a serious illness and death someday.
Stupidity from alcohol or illegal drugs can injure or kill any day — even today.
Think of that when doctors or researchers say alcohol is a health food.
They should be saying it is a stupid, ignoramus drug.
How many alcohol drinkers only drink one or two a day and never get drunk? How many are more like college bingers?
Is the one or two a day people tell doctors and researchers about the same as the one or two they tell police officers about at sobriety checkpoints?
Now, what are we going to teach kids about the ignoramus drug? Are people going to laugh it off and make a joke out of it as usual?
Danny W. Shultz
East Brady R. D. 1