I still enjoy a few good strong vodka and cokes or my old standard Lucky Lager beer.
As for pot, I learned years ago that it's no fun for me because I came down with feelings of paranoia when I smoked it.
Other people seem to really enjoy it so let's just decriminalize the stuff and let them toke away.

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I do not fight fascists because I think I can win.
I fight them because they are fascists.
Chris Hedges

A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Long Sufferin' Marie hid my funnel so I had to ...
Due to illness I have not imbibed any alcohol for
about ten years. I can't say I miss it. As for grass,
it is not legal up here....

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I quit smoking 25 years ago. Jan 1st, 1986. Wife did, too.

I quit drinking for the most part within a year of leaving the military on Thanksgiving Day, 1979.

I think I had 2 or 3 non-alcoholic beers during the grilling season last year.

I'm not expecting to drink that much this year.

Those addictions have been replaced by coffee (getting fairly expensive by itself nowadays) and SETI/pc's.

Crunch on.

Martin

Smoking?
Who smokes anymore?

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Smoking?
Who smokes anymore?

Apparently, a lot of folks still do. From here:

•Around 5.4 million deaths a year are caused by tobacco.
* Smoking is set to kill 6.5 million people in 2015 and 8.3 million humans in 2030, with the biggest rise in low-and middle-income countries.

* Every 6.5 seconds a current or former smoker dies, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

* An estimated 1.3 billion people are smokers worldwide (WHO).


•Over 443,000 Americans (over 18 percent of all deaths) die because of smoking each year. Secondhand smoke kills about 50,000 of them.

•1.2 million people in China die because of smoking each year. That's 2,000 people a day.

•Tobacco use will kill 1 billion people in the 21st century if current smoking trends continue.

•33 percent to 50 percent of all smokers are killed by their habit.
* Smokers die on average 15 years sooner than nonsmokers.

Martin

Never touched a cigarette, but smoked pipe and cigars for 15 years in the Navy.
Started out as stress relief, then became pleasure. Quit in 1990 due to work factors (can't eat, drink, smoke, or even chew gum in a Radiologically Controlled or Nuclear Clean work area) and a barracks roommate who was a triathlete, and had problems even if I only smoked out on the veranda. Hassle outweighed the pleasure, so I quit - cold turkey. But sometimes, when I am around some of my Shipmates who still smoke pipe or cigars, oh, do I wanna, I wanna....

In my youth, I drank like, well, a sailor on shore leave. As I got older (and smarter), I realized I just couldn't do it and function well the next day. Plus, a couple of times I got falling-down drunk in front of people I supervised, and decided that was not a good example to set. Now I have 1, maybe 2 glasses of beer a day, with dinner, and a Scotch and Water or a glass of wine at family dinners or on special occasions.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

I quit drinking, beer and wine that is. vodka and whiskey = yes sir.

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"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
--Albert Einstein

DON'T TREAD ON ME!