Smoked’Em

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1. L – The Captain Obvious question is: Whose side are they on, really ?
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   ” Philip Morris donates 500,000 packs of cigarettes to Ukrainian army
   The tobacco company said it’s working on options for leaving the Russian market,…”

   1. Russian snipers love three on a match?

      1. Our future projections from our models indicates many will be prisoners and they need smokes for jail yard currency…

   2. Larry – don’t those front-line soldiers know smoking is dangerous? Someone could be killed by those dangerous carcinogens. They should talk to their risk counsellors. Maybe update their safe plan of action.

   3. Who, Phillip Morris or the Ukranian Army? 🙂

      I’ve heard the cigarette described as the soldier’s friend.

   4. Who, Phillip Morris or the Ukranian Army?

      I’ve heard the cigarette described as the soldier’s friend.

2. That’s likely one day’s consumption.

3. Good for them!
   Cigarettes are the last thing they have to be concerned about.

   1. Dry matches are the number one worry.

      1. “Dry matches are the number one worry.”

         – They don’t need ’em; they light the next one off the last one from the moment they wake up until the moment they close their eyes. It comes as a perpetual surprise to North Americans, but Europeans (and especially Eastern Europeans) smoke like chimneys and always have. And smoking has always been very popular in war zones; a little bit of home comfort and normalcy, to keep-away the cafard . And smoking was nearly universal during the World Wars, and cigarettes are still used as buckshee currency all over the world.

         I look forward to Seagrams doing their part to support the war effort as well – there’s one thing even more popular in war zones than smoking. But no Bull Durham – remember its ad campaign? “Bull Durham says, “I smoke slow.”” Ukrainians don’t have time for that – they’ve got a war to fight! 😉

         1. My sister, my 15 year old daughter and I were in Cannes in July 2005. There is no one as censorious as a self-righteous 15year old. My daughter who had lathered SPF 100 sunscreen over her entire body was shocked at all the topless bathing ( I was shocked that fat German men were in Speedos) “Don’t they know about skin cancer?” My sister said “Look at all of the smoking – they are all smoking as if it was the cure for cancer!”
            Then when my sister and I were in Budapest in 2016, again, lots of topless sun bathing and smoking going on at the thermal spas. So “yeah, it’s a thing with Europeans!”

4. The leftists here in America would have us copy EVERYTHING “European” … except … their chain-smoking habit. They don’t tell you about that. Sayyyyy … should a LAW get passed to place a WARNING label on airline and travel agency European destinations? Just like Hollywood places on movies with … “smoking scenes”?

   I would settle for a WARNING label for Hollywood gay sex scenes … WARNING! this behaviour may cause AIDS transmission!

   1. Chinese men in general love American cigarettes. There’s a lot of lung cancer in the pipeline.

   2. Ditto – seeing men kiss makes me puke. Ditto for women. Hollywood is dead.

5. I love the smell of cigarette smoke in the morning. It smells like victory.

   1. Goes very will with coffee, too.

      1. For sure!

6. Folks I’m pleased to announce that a new truckload of Laramies with their smooooth good taste and rich tobacco flavour is already heading toward Kiev. And the driver has been instructed to ignore all stop signs and crosswalks.

   1. I heard they were shipping in Laramie Extra-Tar — now with more “nico-glycerol.”

      Of course Big tobacco has to get in on it.

      The 2022 Pripyat tomacco harvest must be saved.

      1. Tomacco? Tobacco crossed with Prinz Dummkopf’s favourite herb? No wonder he wants to stand by Ukraine…..

7. I guess the Ukes don’t pay their army enough to get smokes?
   Is there some kind of embargo against the Ukraine preventing them from getting smokes?
   Humanitarian aide for the army, but not for the people?
   Are the nice neo-NAZIs gonna distribute them to the masses?
   Is this a virtue-signal for “The Current Thing” that Phillip Morris hopes will help their bottom line?
   Inquiring minds want to know.

   1. I think the Azov Battallion is now toast. They were in Marupol weren’t they?

      1. They were in multiple places, training and recruitment in Kyiv IIRC. They will continue making the world a better place one russian at a time.

         Azovs never die! Goodspeed.

   2. Just every major army of the 20th Century. Chocolate and sweets too.

      https://tinyurl.com/3myzhssp

      Even from Queen Victoria.

      Over 100,000 such tins with half-pound (226-gram) bars of chocolate were commissioned by the Queen for troops deployed in South Africa in 1900. Each soldier and officer was to receive a box that read “South Africa 1900” and “I wish you a happy New Year” in the Queen’s handwriting to boost morale.

      1. Oh, I get it now! Thanks!
         These soldiers work for Phillip Morris, like them troopers you mention worked for the Queen.
         Phillip Morris, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Disney, Exxon, Gillette, etc.
         All WEF grads and/or cronies.

         1. You forgot to add “globohomo” and Soros, how can you forget Soros?

8. Smoke ’em if you got ’em.

   “Indicates that the smoking tobacco is permissible and encouraged.

   Originated in mid-20th century wartime. Commonly used during small gatherings of allied troops. Tobacco was a rationed commodity, at the time, and was generally in short supply.

   The term was later popularized in Hollywood war movies.
   The commanding officer would typically use the term when opening a meeting in order to get the troops’ attention and to relax them.”

   https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Smoke%20em%20if%20you%20got%20em

   1. I can remember when “Flat 50s” were a popular Christmas gift. The containers were subsequently used for storage. I might still have one somewhere in the house.

9. Tobacco wins wars, no question.

10. Good job PM, heroes who are courageously defending their homeland and making russians good deserve every little bit of comfort.

11. If the Russians don’t kill them – Philip Morris will.

    1. Well played Ayn Galt
       * Golf clap *

12. Most people smoked in my day.Most quit in their fifties,no fat ladies and few fat men. They smoked instead of snacking. I quit in my fifties but my wife did’nt and died in her late sixties from smoking with COPD. She must have cost the health system maybe a thousand dollars. The people that did’nt smoke live and cost the system millions as things like hips and knees wear out.

    1. Yup. Going in for a hip op, but smoking has not killed me yet, nor anyone I know from so-called second hand smoke.

       This was the first try-out for Covid control by the health community over the populace.

13. It’s a virtual FU to WHO for cancel of their jab product.

14. Cigarettes give snipers a perfect target at night. Fyi

15. Well I celebrated by listening to Commander Cody’s version of, “Smoke, Smoke Smoke that Cigarette”.

16. At this rate Philip-Morris will be responsible for more Ukranian soldier deaths than the Russian military.