addictive friends

It may seem bizarre to call cigarettes – or any addictive substance – ‘friends’, and yet when some people have sexual relationships with bicycles and vehicles one can at least appreciate that a friendly, comforting relationship can exist between a smoker and his or her cigarettes and this is the point Sissy wants to make in relation to Barack Obama’s ‘friends’.

“I think Obama’s decision to quit smoking at a very stressful time, a time when he may need his addictive friends most, is not a wise move,” says Sissy. “I know it is none of my business, but when he puts himself forward as a candidate for presidency he becomes someone who may affect my life in very important ways and I’d like to think that I have a right as a voter to give him some friendly advice.”

“Let’s face it, he must be under a whole lot of pressure from his official advisors to quit smoking in order to make him as squeaky clean as possible,” laughs Sissy. “I’d just like to tell him that it’s fine with me if he needs his addictive ‘friends’ to help him get over the line.”

“He was about 17 when the anti-smoking propaganda started so he was already hooked and needed to smoke in order to function at his best,” explains Sissy. “Cigarettes were his best friends, his crutches, helping him through the stressful years at law school, when he practiced law and when he was elected to Congress. Without smoking, he may not have accomplished as much as he did and he certainly would not be the person he is today with the distinctive voice he has.”

“You don’t ditch your best friends or your crutches when you need them most,” says Sissy, “and no matter what the Nicotine Nazis say about smokers, the desire to smoke does not constitute a character flaw. On the contrary, it’s their desire to denigrate and control others that’s flawed (and don’t get me started about the abominable things they get up to).”

“After a lifetime spent smoking, I feel he has chosen a very bad time to quit smoking,” says Sissy. “I fear that his old addictive ‘friends’ may have a much stronger pull on him than he is willing to admit and it would frustrate the hell out of him, and take his mind off important business, if the quitting process was carried out too fast for the wrong reasons.”


Read more by Sissy on this issue:

once a smoker always a smoker

Barack Obama Smokes?

backing a winner?

peace up in smoke?

walking on water

a life changing vote

who’s the boss?

candidates and spouses

and check out:

Secrets of Barack Obama’s Age

Obama, Clinton or McCain?