Well - I'm not going to argue with you because you're deterministic and with that view, all your points are valid and logical.

Outside of that and from a marketing perspective, "Free" should be a brightly lit, flashing red warning sign. Works for me because as they say - there's no such thing as a free lunch. . .

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Tobacco Companies Targeting Youth  

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Tobacco Company Quotes on Marketing to Kids 

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Smoking Among Children Is Linked To Cartoon Camel in Advertisements

Wunnerful! Wunnerful!
..Heavy Sigh..

Seriously? Children! Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

Winston tastes good like a cigarette should! No filter, no flavor, just a role of toilet paper! Well, that's the way we sang it. . .

Well, I try to stay away from politics here, and WTM is one who really doesn’t need to be defended, but every once in while the rule gets broken.

1. Whether you take the definition of flyover country to mean a) the area between urban centers bounded by LA, Chicago, and NYC or b) anywhere that’s not LA, Manhattan, or San Francisco; it’s pretty safe to presume that it’s a really big area. Apparently though it excludes Maine, which being at the end of the food chain, I completely understand. And before someone jumps in, apologies to Dallas, New Orleans, Miami and any other left out major city.

2. The correct Urban Dictionary top definition of “Deplorable” is Individual Trump supporter. According to Hillary Clinton; One that deserves strong condemnation.

Here’s the thing. Mrs. Clinton made one of the all-time great political gaffes when she said that. Anyone with half a brain and who actually read the story behind that speech new exactly what she intended to mean. She went 50/50; half her target were normal Republicans, half were alt-right extremists. What she said was “half of Trump’s supporters.” Unfortunately, that also meant undecided voters, some of whom were not Republican. Big mistake. Cost her the election. A lot of people took on that term as a badge of honor. And like flyover country, it entered the popular vernacular. I agree that "Deplorable" is not a synonym for "resident of flyover country", but at the same time, it’s a safe assumption that a whole lot of them live there.

Today, both politics and political analysis are heavily biased toward current participants, laws, and social environments, and both are lacking in historical perspective. That in turn has resulted in the use of popular vernacular to refer to the past. A good deal of the time it’s just a normal thing; done without malice and can be quite funny. Since the current popular vernacular seems to be quite fleeting, the more some of these terms are used, the quicker they tend to disappear and be forgotten. Sometimes that’s a good thing, sometimes not. Soup Nazi comes to mind as not.

'cept for Jack. He almost made it. Or maybe he did. . .