Quitting: Trial by Fire (day3)
So it was a friends birthday party last night. We all went out to Bush Garden (a sushi/karoke bar). Teresa was fine because there was so much second hand smoke, she said it was actually easier for her there then at home or work, but I was having a hell of a time. It was under control but I really missed just having something to do with my hands.
I remembered that teresa's old room mate Liv used to smoke herbal cigarettes and so I started to ask if anyone know where to buy them or get them.
I finally got around to doing some googling and found out that there appears to be one major brand of "herbal cigarette" and it's called "Smokin' Joes" and they've recent been investigated (and fined?) for saying that their cigarettes are healthy. As far as I can tell they aren't any worse for you then normal cigarettes (tar and carbon monoxide) but they still aren't healthy.
There's also a lot of anti-smoking propaganda about herbal cigarettes being a tool of the tabacco companies to legally market and sell smokes to kids, presumably in the hopes of selling them real ones "once they grow up". gotta say that makes a certain amount of sense cause who other then sad fuckers like me with an oral fixation would want a herbal cigarette?