Blowing Smoke
by Don Wrege
as featured on Club Corp's ClubHaven
site
in the Cigar Lounge / Cigar Press
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Blowing Smoke by Don Wrege as featured on Club Corp's ClubHaven
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An exhibit in The Smithsonian Institution includes two packs of cigarettes. One is labeled, "I Like Ike," and the other, "Stevenson for President." They were sold in the months directly preceding the 1952 presidential election. The tabulated sales of these two brands (identical tobacco blend, different package) more closely matched the actual presidential vote count than did the political prognosticators' predictions. I guess smokers vote. This interesting self-financing marketplace polling device was invented and manufactured in a Kentucky tobacco factory built by Don Wrege's grandfather. His father ran the operation. Don and his brothers had all worked in it. The tradition of blending political awareness and blowing smoke began early in his family. |
| Parents as Pushers White punks on dope. With their parents' permission. |
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| Graduation Day Clinton checks out the high school chicks. |
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| The House and the Home If we just had more laws, none of this would have happened. |
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| What, Me Worry
About Y2K? Don't panic, it's only money. |
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| Hello, I Must Be Going Newt Gingrich bows out. |
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| Joint Session Medical marijuana, Colorado & the law. |
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| Global Smarming The lies Al Gore will tell to get your vote. |
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| Cigar Dance Written while Monica L.'s exploits were still considered disgusting. |
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| The First Slut More Monica bashing. This column was rejected. |
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| Hardly Working The day the Starr report hit the Web. |
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| Ball and Key Chain Does wearing a pager make you feel needed? |
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| The Birds and the Bleeps Sex on television during the impeachment process. |
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| Missing Lynx Sierra Club activists introduce the Canadian lynx to Colorado in a misguided effor to stop ski resort expansion. The lynx then starve to death trying to make it back to Canada. Four so far. |
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| Internet Depression? The newspapers want you to think that surfing the Web is a sign of depression. |
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| Billionaire Balloonists If you had more money than you could spend, what would you do with it? |
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| Words of Wisdumb Modern politicalspeak making a mockery of our language. |
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| The Power of Influence How Clinton squandered his shot at greatness. |
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| Moral Bankruptcy The Decade of Greed has nothing on these folks. |
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| Running On Empty Keep on truckin' 90's style. |
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