HOW TO STOP SMOKING AND USEING TOBACCO.

When I was little boy about 10 or 11, L.R. Hatton and I found a big hen’s nest under the old Baptist Church and took them to “Uncle Newts” store and traded them for candy and a package of Apple chewing tobacco. We knew the eggs were all bad because we looked at the sun threw them and could see something was wrong but we did not tell the man working in the store. We told them they were from several nest at L.R. Hatton’s house.

We ate the little bit of candy and hid the chewing tobacco at my Dad’s barn. The next morning before school we both cut off a chew and went to school. I was squatting down watching the “big boys” play Soft Ball and some one hit a pop fly up over where I was. I started to run and the catcher’s foot hit me just below the eye and the chew went down my stomach. The principal sent me home because I got dizzy in just a few minutes from the chew. I heaved it all up but my fourth grade class was having the annual picnic and I was persuaded to come on with class over to the “Goat Hill” where the fun and frolic was to be. I did well until after a stomach full of lunch and one roll down the hill and the one-mile home seemed like ten. I never did like chewing tobacco since. I believe if parents made their children chew some and take one stiff drag off a cigarette we would have a lot less use of tobacco being used.

Isn’t it strange how political big deals seem to fade? Heard anything lately about the “V” chip that was to be in all television sets? It was suppose to protect children from violence on T.V. wasn’t it?