Comments on: Rise of The Sudra Prince

By: Al

Al — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:57:53 +0000

Well, here in Holland the anti tobacco lobby is doin fine as well. Yet I am waiting for the anti-car pollution lobby, which we need more badly then a bunch of ex-smokers making the taxes so high that illegal tobacco import is rapidly increasing. Hey Richie, I never knew you were a smoker! I’d like to see you smoke, man!

By: Richard Oh

Richard Oh — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:55:56 +0000

Hey Alfie, don’t even toy with the idea of burning that one deadly fag with your heart condition. Pramoedya was an exceptional case, in that he was somehow born with a physique that could withstand or even subsist with tobacco. I quit three times, and now am worse than ever, still puffing away. My recent trips abroad to Bangkok, Singapore, and Sydney informed me that the success of anti-smoking campaigns will one day make everyone impossible to smoke. I think their efforts are to be applauded. Quite clever too the way they go about wiping out tobacco: by making it so expensive, you gotta pay dearly for puffing. In Bangkok, the campaign is toward consigning the smokers into the group of ‘impure’ people. A social stigma in a Buddhist state that is more damning than prostitution!

By: Al

Al — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:36:11 +0000

I mean: smoking again (of course)

By: Al

Al — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:34:32 +0000

Hey Rich, I like that cigarette story. I know it’s just the lead of your article but I suddenly feel like starting again after two and a half years! Cheers.