Hi (out of lurk mode),
I accept that Joni is addicted to this stuff, and read that she tried
desparately to give it up. I also know many smokers who, because they
cannot stop it, wear it as a badge of defiance. I suppose for me, it is an
irony that Joni, who is a person who is very conscious of environmental
degradation, appears (and that is the operative word) to glamorise the
habit, which is so desctructive on so many levels, especially with regard
to the use of land in many struggling countries, where arable land is used
for these cash crops. Maybe she too, is making an ironic statement , who
knows. To an onlooker, it could be perceived to be glamourisation.
Joni appears in public smoking, holding cigarettes on record covers,
posters and in her own paintings, therefore, I don't think it is wrong to
discuss this, and it is our business and should be honest about it. I feel
sorrow for her in this regard. From what I have seen of what it does to
others, smoking does cloud logic, especially in those who are very
addicted. Maybe Joni just cannot help looking glamorous with whatever she
does.
Although I have never smoked in my life but I realise how addictive it is,
having lived with smokers, during a greater part of my life (one of them
being my father). I (fortunately) never took it up, having a very
devastating asthma attack, which was most probably life threatening. My
father had chronic bronchitis and I realised early on that I had the same
genetic propensity for this.
I do not write this to pass judgment about what Joni does, but the message
at large that concerns me, and now the subject has been aired, so to
speak, I am 'coming out' and posting my thoughts on the matter.
I do not love her any the less for it, I am just very sad about it, that's all.
Regards,
Hil
>This may be, for you old-timers, worn territory. But, I have often wondered
>why Joni feels it so necessary to ingrain the fact that she smokes so
>indelibly into her public persona.
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