Sarah Gibb wrote:
Victor, I agree. Another point is that we want this statue to last a long time - for as long as bronze can last - and smoking may be viewed in the future as equivalent to a heroin addiction. So we'd be dating the statue if we included a cigarette, in such a way that it might be offensive to future generations.
I used to work as an online smoking cessation counsellor. I have no idea how Joni Mitchell perceives her smoking. But I came to know many smokers her age who curse themselves daily for doing it, several of whom are on oxygen, all of whom are on medication for respiratory disease.
very sad and very unlucky people. smoking does not casue disease in all people who smoke, not even in most of them.
My partner's sister is 60 and she is dying from lung cancer and emphysema. she has never smoked.
One would be a fool to pretend that smoking is good for one, but there is so much scare mongering and exaggeration surrounding the smoking issue.
Both sides of my faimly are very long lived-80's and 90's and most smoke. Those that have died young, an aunt from cancer, and uncle from pneumonia, another form a stroke, did not ever smoke. Of course this does not eman that the long lived ones are kept alive by smoking. it does imply that our diseases are much more controlled by genes than anything else.
on tv tonight they were showing filters used to measure the air in London, the filters were covered in black soot-as are thelungs of those who live and breathe there. The air we breathe, the chemicals/poisons in our foods and water are all ignored and smoking is made the scapegoat.
Howver, smoking is not a good thing to do, butit really is time people minded their own business and live and let live. the pullution angle is really crap. these same people do not rant about the car they drive or the plane they catch etc. In this modern world, people are just too plain nosey!
