Words for Wednesday
The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.
The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.
If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.
This month the words/prompts are supplied by Hilary Melton-Butcher and can be found right here on this blog
This week's words/prompts are:
1.smoking 2.culture 3.popular 4.decade 5.soft
and/or:
1.consumption 2.stretch 3.ripen 4.fields 5.cavern
and an extra set of words:
1.jumper 2.multiple 3.oven 4.disprove 5.support
6.bound 7.rural 8.swathes 9.poverty 10.pop
use any list or all, or mix and match, just have fun.
Charlotte's colour of the month is:
My own story will hopefully appear on this blog on Friday 26th
Muito boas as palavras . Já fiz a minha e na 6 feira volto pra ler a tua.
ReplyDeleteAqui está a minha:
https://chicaparticipa.blogspot.com/2026/06/palavras-de-quartas_0336482853.html
beijos,chica
chica; thank you. I will come and read yours in just a minute.
DeleteSmoking remains a health issue in every western culture. It is still popular even in this current decade. Hit em hard or hit em soft, it's hard to know how to reduce consumption. I once did a stretch in The North Carolina state penitentiary where I watched tobacco ripen in the nearby fields. After harvest the crop was taken to a natural cavern in The Jumper Hills where multiple workers placed the leaves in a massive oven which should disprove the widespread theory that tobacco must be dried in the sun. In this I have earned the support of Professor Sean Jeating whose famous rural inquiries produced swathes of evidence that when it comes to tobacco use, poverty is a bubble we must pop. By way of an aside, I must inform you that Professor Jeating likes his underpants to be razzmatazz in colour but that's how professors are - rather eccentric.
ReplyDeleteYorkshire Pudding; and excellent piece, thank you. Smoking is a huge problem, an expensive one too.
DeleteHihi on the underpants, otherwise I had a similar idea...
DeleteSmoking has taken too many of my friends, one of whom came from a tobacco growing family and saw it as a livelihood and traditional way of life she didn't want to see end.
DeleteWords are always interesting R. Sometimes a story comes easy, but not often for me.
ReplyDeleteMargaret D; sometimes the story almost writes itself, but I am having to work at it this time.
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ReplyDeleteSince way more than a decade the prices for cigarettes rise, on the packages are multiple warnings in Razzmatazz and horrible photos of people with any forms of cancer, warnings it hurts also your unborn baby and your kids.
Yet, in our not so soft culture smoking is still popular. The consumption in front of schools by the kids is crazy. The kids seem to support each other in this.
Poverty seems not to be a problem! It might be less in rural places, I at least hope the best for my Nieces. I hope they rather run over the fields to find ripen fruits, making pies and put them in the oven or discover some cavern.
Sorry this is not a funny one but I always inside shake my head when I see this. It´s not cool it´s very dumb.
Iris; I agree it is very dumb to continue smoking or even to start, yet some still do. Here in Australia it seems fewer people are smoking now than in the past so that is a good thing. Older people who began when they were young do still smoke if they are unable to give it up, some try, but many can't. Younger people simply don't take up the habit, probably because of the cost and the known dangers. Cigarettes here are very expensive now.
DeleteVery nice on the mix and match. Happy Writing!
DeleteI'd like to see it end, not by law so much as by not enough people doing it to support a whole industry.
DeleteMessymimi; I would like it to end because people realise they are harming themselves.
DeleteAlso what I like, at least in whole Perth CBD smoking is prohibited.
DeleteMine is in the usual place. I still can't leave a link in your comments, not sure why.
ReplyDeletemessymimi; a link is not necessary since I check your blog every day and not enough people come here to be following links.
DeletePubliquei no meu blog um poema sobre os Santos Populares.
ReplyDeleteAqui deixo a ligação: https://palavrasaladas1952.blogspot.com
Abraço de amizade.
Juvenal Nunes
I must have commenting under the wrong space. Sorry about that. I love the mix and match.
ReplyDeleteAquí teniu el meu:
ReplyDeleteDurant la dècada passada, el consum de tabac ha estat un tema polèmic a la cultura popular, especialment en zones on fumar encara és habitual.
A zones rurals, on els camps s'estenen, el consum és més limitat i lligat a tradicions suaus. La gent solia estirar el moment, com si aquest fum ajudés a madurar idees dins una caverna mental personal. Avui dia, el consum de tabac està limitat gràcies a lleis que donen suport a la salut pública i refuten mites antics. A zones amb pobresa, l'accés a alternatives més saludables és clau per canviar hàbits.
A la música pop, per exemple, hi ha artistes múltiples que promouen estils de vida lliures de la cigarreta. Així, la imatge "fresc com una rosa" de la joventut es manté intacta, sense necessitat de fumar per sentir-se "cool".
Mentrestant la indústria tabaquera, amb el seu forn de producció, intenta estirar les franges de mercat, lligant consumidors atrapats en aquesta addicció.
Moltes gràcies!