First off, I will disclose that I am known to smoke a pipe from time to time. It’s a family tradition that I keep up. I inherited several of my father’s pipes including a beautifu calabash pipe (like Sherlock Holmes’ pipe) that my grandmother purchased in England many decades ago.

Well, now that I got that off my chest, it is just another reason for us sane and logical people to give the antismoking troopers the finger; and not just that, but give ACS a little taste of our minds since they have in their employment one of the world’s greatest jackasses that history has ever known.

First, the SS troopers. It would seem that a pipe smoking club was exiled from their annual meeting spot in Illinois after anti-tobacco nuts raised protest over that wicked tobacco smoke that might kill.. Ummm, Kill another pipe smoker?

What’s worse is that the get together was well within the confines of the law and was perfectly legal… Namely because no member of the general public or the staff of the Pheasant Run Resort would have access to the private function.

However, the local anti-tobacco screwheads wouldn’t accept that:

The idea, however, didn’t fly with Janet Williams of the Illinois Coalition Against Tobacco, who quickly reported the situation to state and local health departments, police, the state’s attorneys in Kane and DuPage counties, and other elected officials after learning about it this week.

“What concerns me is, I think they think there’s a compromise,” said Williams, who is co-chairman of the nonprofit coalition and said she helped write the legislation. “There’s not a compromise. The act is clear: It’s against the law to smoke indoors.”

So, in other words, Ms. Williams went off and tattled that she wasn’t getting her way and raised enough of a stink that the event was shut down.

WTF?? Why are these power-hungry, nanny state, freaks allowed to have any power whatsoever? They should sit and home and knit if they can’t figure out other, more productive ways to keep themselves busy.

Unbelievable.

And so I decided to look up the health effects of pipe smoking and found that none other than the ACS’ Dr. Thun is on the record as saying that pipe smokers aren’t intelligent. Nothing like a little insult to go along with his usual holier-than-thou mentality… When talking about pipe smoking as an enjoyable activity enjoyed by people like Albert Einstein, he sneers:

Thun of the American Cancer Society doesn’t see it quite that way, Einstein notwithstanding. “Pipe smoking hasn’t made anyone smart,” he says. And given all the risks of pipe smoke, he adds, “There’s a lot more evidence of the opposite.”

It would be nice to see this guy bitchslapped by a pipe smoker. Seriously. I’m not a regular pipe smoker but even I’m insulted by this jerk.

But this is, after all, what we have come to expect from the American Cancer Society.