This Is Hilarious

And I'd had no idea!  It's been over five years now since I moved back to Korea, but since I quit smoking many years ago (except for the very very occasional puff on my favorite pipes, for memory's sake) I never paid much attention to the packets of cigarettes behind the counter at every convenience store.  Sure, I sometimes see discarded packs with gross photos of a ruined lung or some such prominently displayed, but never thought much of it.  After all, smoking is already pretty severely frowned upon as an evil habit here in Korea -- I just never realized how severely!  Today, for the very first time I happened to actually pay attention to the scary warnings on cigarette packs, and I just couldn't help but laugh.

#1.  How to have a stroke

#2.  How to acquire sexual dysfunction

#3.  How to have yellowed teeth (compared to the others this one doesn't seem nearly so bad^)

#4.  How to get lung cancer

#5.  How to get laryngeal cancer (on all the packs)

#6.  Nicotine addiction, exposure to carcinogens

#7.  How to go blind

#8.  How to acquire vascular disease

#9.  Lung cancer (just straight to the point)

#10. How to make other people sick (probably means little in China)

#11. Heart disease (again, direct to the point)

I Haven't Smoked In Ages

Not just for health reasons (that wouldn't stop me), but also because here in Korea smoking is kind of frowned upon, and in an apartment complex you aren't allowed to smoke indoors even in your own home because the smell can carry over to neighboring units.  Which is fine, I don't really smoke any more -- but just now I really, really craved a smoke, for whatever reason, so I broke out the old churchwarden for the first time in I don't know how long, lit it up and went out on the balcony for a good long satisfying session.  It's past midnight so I don't think anyone would notice and complain.  Hopefully^.

Feeling Un-PC Makes Me Feel Old

Three favorite old pipes.

Yeah, I know... but I still miss the ignorant bad old days when a man could just light up his pipe and take a few puffs openly.  I love the smell of tobacco smoke.