Been Awhile...

Fiberglass

A – [Presumptuously] I assume you want one.
B – Don’t mind if I do… and what’s with the tone.
A – Well when you said you quit I figured you were going to stop smoking rather than just stop buying the packs.
B – [Smirking] What… you don’t like buying for me?
A – [Laughing] You’re such a cheap-ass.
B – It’s not my fault you’re feeding my addiction in my moments of weakness.
A – That’s hogwash! Knowing you there is probably a full pack in your car, and this exchange, or scam rather, just prolongs the time in which you’ve got to buy another.
B – Haha, I don’t but I’ll give you a break and get my own.
A – Why did you start that whole “I need to quit” thing any way.
B – I don’t know every day it’s something new, some new scare tactic on one of those TRUTH commercials or just random shit you hear.
A – Well what was so bad that it made you start leeching off me. [Laughs]
B – I don’t even remember, but I did overhear something about Menthols that was intriguing to say the least.
A – And what would that be?
B – Someone was saying how like, tobacco companies put fiberglass in them or something, I don’t even know if it’s true but who would buy those knowing that that was a possibility.
A – Well I don’t know what you want me to say about those said consumers but the fiberglass thingamajig is somewhat misleading.
B – Like not true?
A – Well technically it’s in all cigarettes, but it’s in the filters, over time it’s been reduced but there is still some knocking around in there.
B – Why don’t they just get rid of all of it? Seems like it would help there cause a little.
A – Well to my knowledge the whole reason it might be in there is to cool the smoke as it passes through, some heat resistant thing, could be wrong. But hey, if your so worried about it just cut off the filter, I’m sure that’ll do you a lot of good.
B – [Laughs] I think the cons out way the pros. It could be worse I suppose.
A – Well it has, remember when Kent came out with that latest and greatest cigarette.
B – I know the name but that was like… I don’t know… before our time.
A – Well I don’t mean remember as if we were around.
B – Gotcha.
A – Well anyway they came out with some big time Micronite filter, it was the talk of the town at the time.
B - …And?
A – Well turns out this big deal filter contained that good old asbestos they were all so fond of at the time. In the end, no one said cigs were good for ya.
B – Except when they were, and doctors didn’t have a problem sharing a smoke with a patient while he was attempting to figure out where this whole lung cancer thing came from!
[Laughter]
A – Point made… so are you going to quit now you know all this business?
B – Nah, I mean I think I can stop whenever I want to, but simply put, I just don’t want to.
A – Yeah… [Smiles while finishing cigarette]… Nicotine’s funny like that.
B – How do you know all of this jargon anyway?
A – I took that Anatomy and Physiology class back in High School, and every so often we would be subject to a PSA on the dangers of smoking, drinking, etc.
B – I suppose you got the smoking lecture on lung day?
A – Yeah haha, we even did this test to see who had the best lung capacity… naturally smokers do shitty, and non-smokers do better. Then he started raving about this tuba player kid whose record still stood.
B – I imagine you were on the left side of the bell curve.
A – On the contrary, I beat the Tuba player.