Imagine a world without cigarettes...

Let me just start this post by saying I used to be a smoker and can calmly tolerate when others around me smoke.  I also value the opinions of all people on this topic so if smoking bothers those around you, please be considerate of their bitching.

I saw the craziest commercial the other day:

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Basically, the commercial showed people blowing bubbles instead of smoking

- in the car, on the street, in bars and restaurants...pretty much everywhere people smoke.

The wildest part of this commercial was that there were SO MANY FRICKEN bubbles...they were everywhere!

This has got to be the dumbest concept for anti-smoking I have EVER seen.  Now don't get me wrong, I understand that doing away with smoking inside public places was inevitable.  I mean seriously, the non-smoking section of a restaurant is like trying to stay in the non-urine section of a swimming pool.  But when I saw this ad, I couldn't help but wonder what life would be like if the intent of this ludicrous campaign actually came true.

My first thought was of people's safety with all these rogue bubbles now floating around the planet:

Even worse than our new found enemy known as the common soap bubble, I started to think about all of the millions of people who, without cigarettes, would need to get their nicotine fix from other measures.

It would be pandemonium:

So let's pretend for a minute that everyone complies to no more nicotine and we've now got the bubble epidemic under control.  Now let's think back to those times you or a friend of yours tried to quit smoking.  Now imagine every smoker in the world detoxing at the exact same time:

So thanks a lot "Anti-Tobacco".  You've managed to make the world safe yet again for another generation of non-smokers:

You should all be proud...

-Cheers!