Guess Bloomberg doesn’t yet own everyone after all. USA Today:
New York City’s soft drink sellers celebrated a sweet victory Monday when Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s controversial ban on large-size sugary beverages was overturned by a New York state judge.
“We’re excited. We’re happy,” said Russell Levinson, general manager of Movieworld in Queens. He is relieved, that for now at least, the theater doesn’t have to ditch the four drink sizes that would have been banned under the new regulations.
On Monday afternoon, New York Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling overturned the ban.
The limits, which were set to go into affect Tuesday, put a 16-ounce cap on sweetened bottled drinks and fountain beverages sold at city restaurants, delis, movie theaters, sports venues and street carts.
The size limit applied to beverages with more than 25 calories per 8 ounces. It didn’t include 100% juice drinks or beverages with more than 50% milk.
Soft-drink sellers had taken different approaches to the approaching ban. Some bought smaller cups. Some planned to ask patrons to sweeten their own beverages.
At a news conference Monday evening, Bloomberg said he disagreed with the decision and said the city would appeal. With a rising number of overweight and obese people, he said, “it is reasonable and responsible to draw a line.”
Bloomberg has been going full force with his efforts to show the detriments of sugary drinks. On Monday, he released data that showed a correlation between sugary drink consumption and obesity.
And on Sunday, Bloomberg defended the regulation. “We’re not banning anything,” he said on CBS’ Face the Nation. “It’s called portion control.”
Well, no. Actually, it’s called some fucking billionaire busybody presuming to tell free people what they can and can’t do with their bodies.
That Sandra Fluke or some similar feminist harpy hasn’t shown up publicly to decry the outrageousness of some propertied patriarch looking to tell women in New York how to keep the fat off — he likes to date the younger set, you see, and it’d be a shame if all the Mayor had to chose from were portly hipsters in leggings and severe eye wear — tells you all you need to know about what the left is truly about: power.
And the possession thereof for those they accept. All others must be subjugated.
“I wasn’t punching Bloomberg in the face,” the citizen told the arresting policeman. “It’s called demagogue control.”
Someone should tell Bloomburg he IS data showing the correlation between power and corruption.
It’s a tragedy. Rich white billionaires will be forced to walk down the street and occasionally see people drinking liquids in a quantity the billionaire feels is excessive. Where is the justice? Don’t you poor fools know that white billionaires know how to live your life better than you do?
Finally! A blow for justice.
Let’s send Judge Tingling some cigars and try to put him to work on Cuomo’s unconstitutional gun grab.
He is loathesome. Having banned cigarettes, trans fats, bacon, and fun, why not 18 oz sodas?!?!!?
now how will people know how much soda they can buy?
Everybody in new York is going to be all fat and stuff now.
I just heard on the radio thousands are now doomed to disease and death.
It’s a tragedy is what it is.
The amount of soda you can buy will only be limited by your supply of food stamps?
Eh, they got it right for all the wrong reasons.
The law shouldn’t have been banned because it was confusing and impossible to apply evenly, it should have been struck down because “Fuck you, people can drink what the fuck they want without you shoving your shitstained cocksniffer in their business, Bloomie“.
This is another “designed to fail” law. Now, he known he’ll just have to ban ALL sugary drinks, regardless of milk to coffee ratio. And since that can be applied in a non-confusing manner, the court’ll just nod and wave it on through.
LBascom says March 11, 2013 at 6:07 pm
Everybody in new York is going to be all fat and stuff now.
And every fat person in The City will now try to sue everyone who sells sodas. For the first time in my adult life, I’m not particularly proud of America.
soft drinks are important because New Yorkers are disgusting fat-asses but National Soros Radio reminders us that doggie ptsd is also an important social justice issue also
I rarely see obese people in New York except on crosstown streets like 14th or 23rd where minorities shop at cheap clothing stores and eat fast food.
Mr. Abe Mr. Abe!
you are back!
I never left, really. I just don’t interact on blogs much anymore because it bores the shit out of me.
Does anybody besides minorities even drink soda in NYC?
Greetings:
What about egg creams (no eggs, no cream, just syrup, milk, and seltzer) ??? What about malteds ??? A dark pall is settling over the land of my birth.
Anything I can do to make it more fun let me know k?
Everyone – more or less – drinks soda, beemoe. Blacks and hispanics seem to be the only ones who supplement it with 5,000 calorie meals and an abundance of laziness though.
Anytime I was there, granted it was always Manhattan and mostly hanging with hipsters, everybody seemed to be drinking either bottled water or booze.
I told them I didn’t drink water because fish fuck in it.
I gave up Dr Pepper for Lent, but, otherwise, I tend to start my day with a 32 oz Dr Pepper. And if my day at work is particularly crappy or stressful (or awesome and I feel like celebrating), I may drink another one or two. (I’m also 119lbs and healthy. Just to set the record straight.)
This whole story has me screaming, “out of my cold dead hands, Bloomberg!” and having revolutionary visions.
I’m off to play some Skynyrd now.
I’ve never made a habit of scoping out what people drink, but when I’m in a meeting, the first thing a secretary lady does is lay out a mountain of sodas and they disappear rather quickly.
Only corporations can tell me what and how much to drink.
In America, obesity and diabetes are matter of national pride!
Billions of dollars are spent to convince the most vulnerable to chug sugar water, then we throw them to the wolves of a for-profit health care when their bodies stop working.
Mercka’ where Mountain Dew is king.
You forgot stupidity.
If you believe yourself smart enough to see through the venal corporate indoctrination of advertising, Dalekhunter, what makes you think others aren’t just as smart?
Because frankly, you’re at the lower end of the smarts scale to begin with. Which tells me that most people can probably do without your or Bloomberg’s “nudge.”
By the way, did Bloomberg get his money through aristocratic inheritance — that is, properly? Or did some kind of dastardly Amerikkkan Korporation, driven by the unequal, unfair, socially unjust excesses of Kapitalism, have something to do with it?
Doctors better adjust their minds to enslavement right quick, ’cause the leftists demand it now, right now. Didn’t know you were going to grow up to be mere step’n’fetchits, didja, internists?
Bloomberg is an oligarchical tyrant turning this island into a playground for the rich and its residents into their servants. The one time he does something that may actually benefit the majority of the residents of New York City its targeted by big beverage and strikes out in court. It’s pathetic.
Lose the University of Phoenix adjunct arrogance Jeff, you’re in no position to judge someone’s intelligence.
Hey, maybe do us all a favor and lose the fascist, Jeff.
Dalekhunter is a very stupid individual.
you take proggtarded to a new level
Hiya, Abe.
University of Phoenix? Hardly, dalek.
What, do I not have the proper papers? Please, direct me to the correct cubicle, Dalekhunter. I’d hate to be caught in your “Mercka” practicing conclusion drawing without the right licensing and permits.
Imagine how big of a moron you have to be to think that people are obese because they consume a few hundred calories a day drinking soda?
Seriously. He said ‘big beverage’ and I don’t think he was doing it tongue in cheek.
I just don’t have the capacity to deal with that level of extreme brainwashing and rabid, almost perfunctory knee-jerk criticism of an industry that makes a legal, harmless product that many people seem to want and enjoy.
This “There oughta be a law!” thing must be exclusive to libs. I had one going ALL-CAPS on me about how deadly Lunchables are for little children.
I’m not so sure about that Leigh. Doesn’t Oklahoma have dry counties and/or counties where you can only buy that pukey low alcohol beer? Laws for the baby Jesus or for a nannyish emperor make no difference to me. They’re equally un-American.
Spoken like a good little drone. Or have you been promoted to toady yet?
You can do it. We believe in you.
What’s wrong with Lunchables? That’s what Satch eats nearly every day at school for lunch. Mostly the chicken strips or dunks. High in protein. Comes with a juice and couple cookies.
The hell?
Dale is a Khunt
He rode in inside his progtardis.
It’s defective though. He sets it for utopia but always lands in tyranny.
It’s bigger on the inside!
Progtardis wins.
Doesn’t Oklahoma have dry counties and/or counties where you can only buy that pukey low alcohol beer?
Nope. Oklahoma does limit where beer/wine/liquor can be sold (like, no liquor in supermarkets, and for a long time no wine, but I think that changed). Texas, however, does still have dry counties.
Billions of dollars are spent to convince the most vulnerable to chug sugar water, then we throw them to the wolves of a for-profit health care when their bodies stop working.
Needless to say, Dale K Hunter, you have a lot of issues. But sodas are not the only thing advertised. In fact, they’re probably not even the most common thing advertised. What makes them more pernicious than Viagra, light beer, car insurance, Catching Fire trailers, Old Navy shorts, Truck Month, ComiCon, or Tide commercials? If people cannot make a decision about soda, how are they capable of making any purchasing decision? If people cannot deal with the fallout of a “bad” but reversible decision, then how can they be expected to learn anything? When does a child get to become an adult?
If people cannot make a decision about soda, how are they capable of making any purchasing decision? If people cannot deal with the fallout of a “bad” but reversible decision, then how can they be expected to learn anything? When does a child get to become an adult?
Everything is someone else’s fault. That’s the liberal way, blame every pathology that afflicts minority communities on advertisers, white conservatives etc, while simultaneously doing an awful job of educating them so they’ll be helpless to leave the plantation.
Why this stuff also afflicts white trash is a red state problem that I don’t give a shit about, but it’s clear that the trash in my city is the result of liberal stupidity.
I’m not so sure of that. I mean, there’s a difference in alcohol and soda,,,I bet even in NYC you can’t walk down the street sucking on a bottle of whiskey like you can a big gulp, no? Plus, kinda depends on how the law came about I think. Bottom up from a majority of voters verses a decree from on high.
I’m not personally a proponent of blue laws, after all, Jesus first miracle was turning water into wine, but if that’s what the local yokels want, I don’t necessarily think it’s un-American.
I visited my Aunt in Louisiana a couple of years ago, and it turns out they live in a dry county. I didn’t feel like my liberty was stripped and America was dead there though.
lunchables the bad part is the processed meat and the carbs, plus also the fat
the good part is the cheese
I don’t get excited about sodium
but I am trying to avoid processed meat
except for turkey bacon
That’s just rationalizing, Lee. If Bloomberg didn’t have support, he’d be no more able to accomplish things like this than a bunch of dim-wiited Jesus freaks are.
And as to there being a difference between whiskey and soda, this is an issue of availability, not public consumption. Though the idea that you’d be accosted by cops in New York for anything short of a gun is kind of nutty. Part of why laws like Bloomberg’s anti-smoking ordinances raise more ire among part-time legal secretaries in California than they do among smokers in New York is that people here do whatever they want regardless of what the law is.
There are no personal decisions that Dale the Khunt would not cede to the government. Except STAY THE FUCK OUT of dale’s uterus.
In Pussy Land it takes a mere judge to hold up all the forward for bit. It’s a city of door-men who accept spit for their tips and shoves for their wages.
dalekhunter blathered
*snipped after the first blatant misrepresentation/lie*
it’s getting hard to make any meaningful distinction between Sandra Fluke and Lena Dunham anymore unless i really concentrate
I think it’s cause the fun whimsical and endearing alanis-like nostalgically collegey intelligence Lena brings to the table gets all blunted when I think of her dykey prison tats and then hairy-everywhere Sandra blurs seamlessly in with the dykey prison tats and then the phrase “moue of distaste” comes to mind and then
you know a little processed meat never hurt nobody can I please have a lunchables
it beats ordering out and having to walk down to the gate
Dalekhunter says March 11, 2013 at 9:40 pm
Whatever makes you feel adequate, drone.
“Only corporations can tell me what and how much to drink.”
I figured out that advertising was untrustworthy when I was about 5.
Sorry you never had that epiphany.
another stupid proggtard term like assault weapons
We? Who is this “we” you speak of and where do you get off throwing anyone anywhere? How about you (and Nanny) mind your own fucking business?
Only corporations can tell me what and how much to drink.
Great lead, Khunt. If the minimal advertising for My Dew has led you to your life of morbid obesity, that puts you firmly in the camp of mindless sheeple. Do you run out and buy everything you see a commercial for?
In America, obesity and diabetes are matter of national pride!
You seem to be proud of it. Your apparent inability to take charge of your own health gives you no right to dictate to others.
Billions of dollars are spent to convince the most vulnerable to chug sugar water,
Again, the fact that you are so easily led by the likes of a FloBee commercial and Obama, says more about you than those you are trying to claim superiority over.
then we throw them to the wolves of a for-profit health care when their bodies stop working.
EEK! PROFITS!
Mercka’ where Mountain Dew is king.
I dare you to try to take my 20 oz Mt Dew. Hint. You couldn’t.
If people cannot make a decision about soda, how are they capable of making any purchasing decision?
This is but another example of the Fundamental Contradiction of the Democratic Nanny State:
How is a person incompetent to decide how much soda he personally will drink, but when he steps into the voting booth, magically transubstantiates into being competent to elect a Bloomberg to make that same decision, not just for himself, but for everyone?
From a utilitarian PoV, Friedrich von Hayek described the Knowledge Problem: There is local knowledge that is not available to a central planner, but essential to make optimal choices. For instance, BloomingIdiot does not distinguish between the caloric consumption of a desk-bound office worker and more vigorous occupations such as construction. The person best suited to have the local knowledge about someone’s metabolism is that person himself.
When someone’s bad choices directly injure others, there is at least some logic behind restricting those choices by force. Laws against driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs can thereby be justified (although there is a great deal of dispute about the BAC at which “impairment” is statistically significant). But when the harm is confined to the person whose actions are to be circumscribed…
Teh magick of collective action!!!!!1!!
All the proggtards have done, Monster, is redefine “prevent harm to others” in that Mill quote to mean, “stop something that causes offense to another member of the public, or a government official, or that just seems ‘weird’.”
–Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840
Democracy in America, Volume II
Book 4, Chapter VI
Oklahoma have dry counties and/or counties where you can only buy that pukey low alcohol beer?
30 years ago. We have package stores just like city folks.
There are two ways to resolve the paradox observed by Tocqueville: the first is to acknowledge the dignity, responsibility, and ability of individuals to order their lives as they see fit. In short, to treat them as rational adults.
The second is to see them reduced to the level of dependent children, reliant on the State for their shelter, sustenance, and livelihood. For the raising of their children and the care of their elders. For making their every choice and directing their every action all the days of their lives, and by so doing, relieving them of any cares or responsibilities.
Of course, a careless, irresponsible populace cannot be trusted to make important electoral decisions, any more than they can choose to carry a firearm, smoke a cigarette, or drink a Big Gulp. So the electoral decisions will be made for them, by the same benevolent administrative state that makes every other decision for them.
I choose to treat people as responsible adults. My counterparts turn them into dependent children. And yet I am the one widely reviled for my inhumanity.
Jeff, the conversation about Lunchables was in regard to an article in The New York Times Magazine. The author was asserting that only parents who Don’t Care ™ feed them to their kids.
I called bullshit. The guy who posted the article has no kids and is therefore an authority on all things child related.
‘feets, “turkey bacon” is NOT bacon.
no it’s weird it comes fully cooked
but it’s good for breakfast burritos cause of I went galt on the breakfast burritos and took full responsibility for making my own ones so that’s what I use instead of going to the burbank handy mart
also it’s good for to flavor my favorite salad which is where you mix broccolis with maybe a lil spinach and a very little chopped onion and some red or orange bell pepper for color and maybe some romas (cause of how they’re not all soggy) and maybe a bit of grated carrot then chopped wanuts or slivered almonds and then you dress it with mayo and sriracha and mix it up it’s very healthy and with a little turkey bacon it’s really tasty
As I read what passes as reasoned dialog from dalekhunter, I am struck once again at the alacrity with which progs have made the switch from “fighting the establishment” to being the establishment.
“Turkey bacon” is a nonsensical phrase. If it’s made from turkey, it ain’t bacon.
I wouldn’t even dignify it by calling it erzatz bacon; doing so would devalue the word erzatz, because it isn’t even an inferior substitute for bacon.
Unless you’re Jewish or Muslim, eat bacon, fercryingoutloud.
Adjunct is an adjective, not a verb.
The 2013 Academy Award for Best Ironic Poseur goes to thee.
Turkey sausage, however, is accurate.
If the yellow rodent can redefine marriage to his liking, there’s no reason we shouldn’t expect him to redefine bacon while he’s at it. Still doesn’t mean we have to recognize his arbitrary redefinitions.
I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that.
Seriously: the only kind of unprocessed meat is raw meat. I think the aversion to processed meats comes from its sodium content. Which may or may not be important, depending on who you talk to, and what decade it is.
I’m with you, Slart. Any time one of my crunchy granola friends gets started about “processed foods,” I quickly cut in with, “Like what? Flour? Milk? Frozen peas?”
no it’s cause of the preservatives it was on an instapundit link
eating processed meat is like the same as eating 12 packs of cigarettes and sitting at a desk for like a million hours
dalekhunter sighting
If a Mayor can’t do things to make his city’s populace healthier, what’s the point of his job?” wailed CNN host Piers Morgan
i want processed meats with trans fats served with 32 oz coke
Spam&eggs with a side of bacon, some toast slathered in butter, and coffee. Breakfast from heaven. Fuck Bloomberg and his tiny troll bitch.
I’m-a make a list of all the things the nannystatists say I don’t need, and I’m-a get those things because I want ’em and I have a right to them and nobody’s opinion of what I need has any bearing on the matter.
And what I do with ’em after I’ve got ’em is nobody’s business either.
good allan we’re really effed
Cantor looking to rehab the GOP brand with new legislation
via levin barackycare got fido too
Obamacare May Bite You At The Vet’s Office
Not that it comes as a surprise to anyone, but Dale the Khunt crawled back under his rock when called out on his totalitarian nonsense. He is too much of a coward, or too big of a khunt to defend his position.
Or as one of Heinlein’s characters put it:
I tried some shit labelled turkey bacon once. Just once.
It was like somebody had ground up some bacon bits and mixed them in strips of bologna.
Fucking nasty.
Smoked pork jowl has been a thing forever, but now I’m seein’ it labeled “smoked jowl bacon”. Pass the bacon, name by name, for we loves it beyond loving.
Turkey bacon is an abomination.
All the cheap cuts of meat that were previously consumed by the poor and newlyweds are now trendy with hipsters and cost a fortune. Stuff like beef cheeks, short ribs, pork bellies, offal, even salt pork.
I think it’s part of a plan to force people into making the bulk of their proteins up with crappy fish like tilapia.
Even if you process it yourself?
no it all comes back to the preservatives I think
and sulfites
“and sulfites”
link
I’m pro-sulfites if they’re used judiciously don;t get me wrong
but if they’re just mixed in willy nilly then no I can’t support that
You’re thinking nitrates and nitrites, happy. They are generally used in cured meats.
Happyfeet worries too much about this shit for to be a heterosexual whats from Texas.
Mr. Instapundit had a link we’re all gonna die i
it’s cause of the nitrites
but maybe if we all drink red wine and take vitamin D some of us might still make it
My advice is to live however the fuck you want to and worry about being dead when you’re dead.
Thinks looks insane.
http://dudefoods.com/bread-cheese-bacon-double-cheeseburger/
I am going to have to try one.
We’re all going to die anyway. I’m not eating tofu and turkey bacon to squeeze in a year or two longer.
Yeah. I’m not trading any pleasure for an extra five years of senility.
Turkey and chicken are only edible as themselves, not in any form of “meat” that is normally made of beef, pork, or a mixture of the two.
You know things are bad when they have to start cutting corners on friggin’ bologna and hot dogs.
Pretty soon they’ll be putting sawdust in bread, as they did in Europe during WWII.
They’ll claim provides “healthy fiber” or some shit.
I’m going to try and quit smoking so maybe someday I can see my grandkids graduate college.
My son needs to get with the program though. Married nearly three years, and still nothing…
I like watching people’s faces when they try a real, deli cut bologna for the first time.
I love the stuff, don’t care at all for the prepacked crap they make out of the scraps from every critter in the barnyard.
drugs mr. lee don’t skimp on the drugs
drugs n cupcakes
drugs n cupcakes worked for me and I think I had about every godawful side-effect you could have but still i got through it
wellbutrin and chantix and then lexapro to cure the tremor I got after I quit chantix
the chantix give you crazy dreams and the wellbutrin turns you into a lump and the lexapro makes certain parts on you not wanna work right
but then one day bam you’re back to normal and smoke free and you just have to lose the weight you gained
Chantix doesn’t work for a lot of people and it’s expensive.
Whenever I’ve quit (pregnant, decided to get “healthy”), I just cold turkied it for a week and I was good.
I’m quit about 3 weeks now, cold turkey. Got a nasty cold and figured that when I couldn’t breathe anyway was as good a time as any to stop spending $250/month inhibiting my respiratory abilities. It makes all sorts of sense to stop doing that.
I’m remarkably sanguine about it all. I’ve only wanted to kill someone twice.
I used sunflower seeds and tootsie pops.
Hank Jr. recommends life savers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcYdLQ8-XZE
good job mr. pablo it helped me that i quit right before that pelosi whore raised taxes a buck a pack
i think that fascist obamawhore freak child graeme frost was involved too
but that mighta been one of those chantix dreams
I haven’t smoked for seven or eight years now but I might have to try some of that Chantix just for the hell of it.
I’m going to try cold turkey first.
My landlord tried the Chantix thing a while back, and after hearing his tails of crying jags and suicidal thoughts, I think I’ll give it a pass.
Don’t be too hard on me when I start calling you names and saying bad things about you mothers though, I won’t hardly mean it much…
Oh, I meant to say your mothers, but either way…
That’s how I managed it in 1995 after smoking for over 30 years. Taking a drag just made me cough hard. I left my last half empty pack in my night stand for years just to make sure I didn’t back slide.
Thinking about it never really goes away but the craving does.
i miss it more than midget pickles
mr. lee mr. lee the drugs are a trial yes indeed they are but they really do want what’s best for you
they’re like a chemical crowbar what pries you off the sweet sweet nicotine
I can’t quit because of mainly not wanting to, and also since I’ve mostly been in great shape for the time I’ve been a smoker, I’ve never developed a smoker’s cough or that other shit.
I did get prescribed Wellbutrin the one time I tried to quit, and that shit wrought havoc on my life.
it takes powerful drugs to beat a powerful drug
but also wellbutrin can be scaled back dosage-wise to where it still does the trick without turning you into a motivationless basking monitor lizard person
Well, Abe, guess what? That Wellbutrin (or Chantix, same diff) is all the feds will need to add you to the list of persons not allowed to own a gun. Doesn’t matter why you were prescribed a psychotropic….
nonono different drugs you can use them in tandem
oh.
i think i misunderstood you
Wellbutrin definitely turned me into a dude that you wouldn’t want to own any guns. I think my ex was a little melodramatic about it all because she previously had placed me on a pedestal, but there’s no denying that it turned me into a nutbag.
Video or it never happened.
I didn’t use drugs to help me stop smoking, unless you term a short-term lateral move to dipping Skoal a drug use. That lateral effectively quashed the whole light-and-suck routine. I had the nicotine I was addicted to with the added benefit that I wasn’t polluting other people’s air. And, that nicotine infusion method works in planes, restaurants, theaters, anywhere else a smelly curl of smoke is prohibited.
And it’s much easier to quit spitting in opaque bottles than it is to quit the more traditional nicotine infusion methodologies that kill you…and your loved ones.
Wellbutrin sounds like it mimics generic, low-dose PCP.
I quit smoking four packs a day in July of 2001 [on the 21st at 12:10 AM – I can’t remember yesterday, but that will stick in my brain forever].
For the first two weeks I was in a cloud on Wellbutrin, then I heard Don Imus mention that he had been on Nicorette for a decade and had never picked-up a cigarette since, so I started on the 4mg gum.
Bingo!
I’m still on it and, to my primary physician’s astonishment, my lungs have repaired themselves [not fully, but more than they should have for someone who did four packs a day for twenty years].
The gum is better than the patches because you get to control the dosing.
Sixty-two bucks here in New England at Costco buys you two hundred 4mg pieces – well-worth the expense.
Another tip: when you first quit, stay away from red meat, booze, and chocolate for a couple of weeks, as they contain ingredients that make you yearn for a nic-fix.
SIDENOTE: I’m still using the gum because I’m the kind of person that has to be addicted to something – even my primary doctor agrees that the gum is the better addiction than smoking or drinking or drugs.
Remember that teacher in NC who was horrified that a child was eating an “unhealthy” lunch and then forced the child to eat chicken nuggets? Yeah, I don’t get it either. Anyway, my response to that prog nonsense was the same as my response to Bloomberg: if I want to pack a 30-inch Pixy stick of sugar and 24-ounce Double Jolt Cola for my kid’s lunch, I will damned well go ahead and do it. On the other hand, I have nothing but contempt for the people in NY who keep voting for Bloomberg. Everyone knows who and what he is, so they’re getting what they want, good and hard.
I quite cold turkey. If you can make it the first week, which I did, you’ve made it.
Figured if I was going to have kids I needed to get off the tobacco. Not easy for a former bartender, but not as difficult as I thought it’d be.
The biggest test for me came when I had my first drink after two weeks. With the gum, no problem.
The toughest moment was unexpected: two and a half months after quitting, on 09/11, but I made it.