CIGARETTES, SECOND HAND SMOKE AND HOMOSEXUALITY

funny how so many things come to me while driving in my car. this sunday i was driving to church and in the car in front of me were two ladies merrily puffing away on their cigarettes. as i watched them sucking away on their coughin' nails and blowing out their "evil, insiduous second hand smoke" (hey at least they were polite enough to stick their cigarettes out their partially opened windows when they weren't inhaling them). i began to wonder several things... "hmmm, i wonder how they got started with this addictive habit?, haven't they heard any of the anti-tobacco company...oops smoking commercials? don't they know the hazards of smoking? if so i wonder why they continue sucking in potentially lethal carcinogenic agents?' (possibly because it can turn into a very lucrative cash cow for them). my thoughts turned to the history of tobacco in this country. if anyone bothers to do even a little honest historical research they will find that tobacco, and smoking in particular were touted for it's/their medicinal purposes and how smoking was beneficial. of course now, a couple of hundred years later and after some scientific research we find that those ideas don't hold much water. in fact we would find them quite laughable if cigarettes and lung cancer weren't so serious. so what does all of this have to do with homosexuality?...hmmm lets see not much on the surface, but if we think about it a little we find that there might be more in common then homosexuals and advocates of "it's just an alternative lifestyle" want to admit. both issues deal with attitudes and trying to convince others that something that is unhealthy and unnatural is "ok", healthy, and quite natural. ...to be continued work calls.