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San Francisco Tobacco Education Project
17 comments:
el Greco, what in hell is this? A forum to help people choose the best cigars?
Melissa, do I detect a note of skepticism? Yes, there are organizations that stigmatize the tobacco user. But STEP has found that a spirit of acceptance and concern yields the greatest positive results.
That is why STEP is one of the most progressive organizations in existence, helping people of all ages, races, and gender preferences to make smart choices about tobacco in their lives.
Will you join with us for progressive social change?
I smoked cigarettes for years an old habit I picked up in the "Old Country". It used to be, smoking, and almost anything was acceptable just about anywhere in The City. "Live and let live", we'd say. Unfortunately, intollerance seems to have prevailed and the saying became "Live as we'll tell you to". After the SF smoking ban took effect, my favorite bars shunned my company. Fearing government intervention and fines, they relegated me to smoke in the dark back alleys and cold, foggy streets of San Francisco, huddled around 3 ft aluminum ashtray cans they chained to the building. People would walk by me on the street and wave their hands in front of their faces, coughing as if they had just escaped a burning building or a coal mine collapse.
I felt like a pariah, reviled by the very people whom I had helped get elected to the board of supervisors. Shunned from society for my desire to partake in an activity that is legal in this country.
Yea, I tried to change in the past, but just didn't know how. This time though, I had enough. I needed to make that change.
I found STEP.
I contacted a STEP counselor from their website. They never once made me feel like I was a bad or evil person because I smoked. They understood how I felt. They also helped me realize that there may be an smarter alternative to cigarettes for me. Sure, I was sceptical at first. An alternative to cigarettes, FOR ME? I'm here to tell you, there was. And the best part was that there was no cost to me. STEP has opened a whole new world I never thought existed.
Thank you STEP. I don't know what path I would have chosen without you!
I. Pizanja
Pizanja, your story is the reason I keep getting up every morning: the magic of another life changed. How well I remember the day when you first drug your sorry, cigarette-infested excuse for a body to STEP. I can still hear your pained cry for help in your raspy Marlboro voice. That was only the beginning.
Then the work began; the tough love that it takes to break away, the long lonely nights of withdrawal and gutwrenching sickness. You nearly gave up but for that screaming, bloody murder phone call from your ex-wife.
I was there when you pulled through, when you were clean, when you finally were able to make smart tobacco choices for yourself. And I knew, as many before you have known, it was STEP that made the difference.
everybody knows that one wiff of second-hand smoke will kill you in a week. similarly, numerous scientific studies have shown that intolerance will make you live forever. so, in the city that harbored convicted, drug-dealing felons and paid $7,000 a month per felon to keep these illegal aliens beyond the reach of sane federal authorities long enough for all of these fine fellows to escape into the wilds of southern california (there is a silver lining), i applaud every pinhead politician who has nothing else to do but blow smoke up my ass in designated areas. STEP is a threat to all we hold dear in san francisco. children everywhere (and their champion, chris daly) will rally against your new evil.
Since this forum is about smart tobacco choices, can anyone recommend a good $5 cigar?
-fool on the peninsula
Does STEP have an African American contingent? You know,... The STEP brothers?
If I left my comment here, then I would be hardpressed to find it when I looked under the stairs. Do you know where I can find a good pastrami sandwich?
Anyone know where I can buy Kraft's latest food and dance craze - Macarena and Cheese?
I was disappointed that STEP had been disinvited from the SF Street Fairs. That makes me disenchanted with the disenguousness of disreputable dyspeptics. And you can place dis where da sun don't shine.
Do you know a good kennel where I can board my PETS?
I tried to leave a message for your General Counsel, Cletis Walkman, but I was referred by his secretary to an underage brothel outside of Bangkok. Is Mr. Walkman on another "business" trip?
Finally got a hold of Cletis, your General Counsel. Turns out he was in the middle of a three way with a Belgian handpuppet master and an underage Cambodian choirboy. Was he in charge of vetting all the Republican VP candidates?
This is total bullshit - my cigarettes are the little orange smokey light of my life! And just to prove it i'll be open minded and try this cigar... pfft. It looks good - feels good in the hand - smells good - lights up nicely - great taste! Wow! Who needs cancer sticks? I'm switching to cigars right now! THANKS STEP! Wow STEP really works! Thanks for helping me make a better tobacco choice :-)
ps - maybe i should try a pipe also...
Hello. Is anybody there? Is this Customer Service? My Mac dongle is limp and I can't get it up. Hellooo! I am not getting a dialtone here. Damn phone compa
What language is your word verifications written in?
Dear Mario-
I know you were just wounded in Kanduhar province and this may not be the best time for me to break this to you - but I am pregnant with your 4th cousin's (twice removed) child. I know we said we would wait till you came back but I got horny last Thursday and I couldn't find any batteries that worked.
I hope I have your correct email address.
Goodbye forever,
Gerty
After my last cigar I think I started hallucinating because I came up with a single word that describes a homeless defrocked religious man who walks around unshod and has forsaken all rituals of personal hygiene:
super-calloused-fragile-mystic-ex-priest-halitosis
I need to buy me some more of them sticks.
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