What went wrong?

Smoking in America

Here's what I know.  When everyone smoked we were a better people.  We won wars.  We executed traitors.  Nobody had health insurance, because medical care was affordable, and negotiable. Granny still lived to 90, gramps to 92.  Not a single democrat in congress today could have been nominated, let alone be elected.  The television code would not allow a married man and woman to be shown in the same bed. Nobody burned the American flag, because nobody would publicly disavow their counttry - to do so put your life in danger. The letters  "ACLU" strung together were so ugly they carried the same onus as ''communist," or "Nazi."  Politicians were put-down in debates by being accused of paying dues to them.  Children said the Pledge of Allegiance, and listened to a bible passage every school morning; nobody was traumatized by it. Having a child out of wedlock ended any public career. Everybody celebrated Christmas, if only as a season of joy and good will, and giving. All of that changed once the smoking Nazis came to power.  What am I to think? America will not be great again until the Marlboro song is played on every television show. Who's got a match?