Calendar Girl Blog: Weedless Wednesday

Welcome to Weedless Wednesday. The weed to which this day is dedicated is tobacco.

Yes the day is half over. Still if you smoke tobacco, and you'd like to feel that you are involved in Weedless Wednesday, if nothing else because it is fun to say, then butt yea out right now!

Weedless Wednesday is the apex of National Non-Smoking Week. It assumes that many smokers made a 'stop smoking vow' on New Year's Eve. If they've made it this far into the greyest month ever, without cracking, then a bit of national support may keep them smoke free that much longer.

I don't smoke tobacco. I did. For a short time. Twice. At fourteen I spent the summer with my farm girlfriend neighbour in the apple orchard. We'd steal rollies from the adults, smoke until we were green, then rub apple chunks all over us so we would go undetected. Think burnt applesauce.

Later, in University, I tried the King Sized Menthol look. Which turned out to be stupid. Still, no one bummed smokes from my pack unless they were beyond desperate.

Calendar Girl includes these dates on the calendar because smoking and cancer are mates. No two ways about it. Hand and hand. Calendar Girl watched someone slowly and painfully die from smoking. She said, "If I'd known they would kill me, I'da stopped year's ago."

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