{"id":169,"date":"2010-12-18T13:37:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T20:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2010-12-18T13:37:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T20:37:44","slug":"former-premier-of-alberta-if-youre-stupid-start-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Former Premier of Alberta: “If you’re stupid, start smoking.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ralph Klein, who was the premier of Alberta from 1992-2006 (wow, that’s a long time), and was mayor of Calgary from 1980 to 1989, is ill from emphysema (also called COPD, though COPD can be more than just emphysema). Klein gave an incredible interview with the Calgary Su<\/a>n about his battle with COPD. He began smoking when he was 14 years old.<\/p>\n

In the article, Klein, who is 68 (most people who get emphysema\/COPD start getting it in their 60s) is quoted:<\/p>\n

“I started smoking when I was 14. We thought it was cool. Everybody did it. I smoked a pack a day for almost 50 years. I quit smoking six years ago, but it’s caught up with me.
\nIf you’re stupid, start smoking.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Get this, Klein was also the leader of the “Progressive conservative” Party in Alberta. What the Hell is a “Progressive conservative.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ralph Klein, who was the premier of Alberta from 1992-2006 (wow, that’s a long time), and was mayor of Calgary from 1980 to 1989, is ill from emphysema (also called COPD, though COPD can be more than just emphysema). Klein gave an incredible interview with the Calgary Sun about his battle with COPD. He began … Continue reading Former Premier of Alberta: “If you’re stupid, start smoking.”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,69,1],"tags":[81,590,593,169,174],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lung-disease","category-tobacco-2","category-uncategorized","tag-alberta","tag-copd","tag-emphysema","tag-ralph-klein","tag-smoking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-2J","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":830,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=830","url_meta":{"origin":169,"position":0},"title":"Vaclav Havel, victim of smoking and lung disease","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"January 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a catching up story. 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