What would you do for a Camel?

Cigarettes, long known as a hazardous if not fatal addiction, have included warnings on its packaging about the harmful side-effects of the habit. But apparently the warnings are just not thorough enough for people like Jeff Foran of Arkansas who suffered facial trauma and other injuries when the cigarette he was smoking blew out the car window. Perhaps it was the liquor (how many excuses start with that line?) or perhaps it was some new undiscovered side-effect of smoking or perhaps it was just a really, really good cigarette that caused Mr. Foran to leap out the window of the speeding car to pursue his fugitive indulgence and land in the eastbound lane of Arkansas 234.

It was not reported whether Foran retrieved his cigarette nor whether these harmful side-effects have discouraged him from his deadly vice but we here at the Picayune certainly hope not. Remember kids: quitters never win.

Read the article at nytimes.com