Claiming that the horrifying near-death experience really put things into perspective, area man Leo York announced Tuesday that a recent heroin overdose served as a wake-up call to keep on doing heroin but just be smarter about it. “That’s it. Tomorrow I’m buying a digital scale, and from now on I’m only using on weekends or after work if it was a super hard day,” said York, explaining that the close call had provided him with the clarity to realize he needed to do the hard work of finding a more trustworthy dealer instead of shooting up whatever sketchy back-alley stuff he could score. […]
No, people quit smoking because decades of campaigning on smoking is stupid, and makes you gross, worked. We saw each generation after that started smoke less, and less. Soon as they put out a way to get nicotine that wasn’t smoking, and didn’t make you smell repulsive, the use of nicotine shot way up again.