I am CuTRis

See video to learn how to quit smoking the Minnesota way. All you need to do, is go outside there in the blowing snow and subzero temperatures with the (even more) subzero windchill and have yourself a smoke. Once you're done, you won't want to do it again for a while.

Most people know that smoking is bad for you. Remember the Marlboro Man ? At least he didn't look like he had a robot 's thing in his mouth! Because that's what it looks like when I see people with an e-cigarette ! So if it isn't bad enough that you are using a drug dispenser that was invented in China to replace the old fashioned cancer stick s, just think of how dumb you look with a robot's thing in your mouth!

This morning after I dropped my son off at his grandparents' house, I drove down the icy road to Rice Street where sure enough, the man who lives on the sidewalk by the hardware store, was wrapped up in blankets like a mummy. He was lying on the sidewalk next to a shopping cart heaped full of his belongings. It was 8 degrees Fahrenheit (-13.33 Celsius). Ten years ago I had the experience of working in social services with drug addicts and I became familiar with the tragedy of poverty and addiction. One thing I learned from the men who often slept outside in our frigid Minnesota winters, is that most of them no longer have toes. It's not something you would think about or probably know if you sleep in a bed in a house. These are not aliens from another world, they are people like us. They have problems, often mental illness and often they self-medicate and abuse alcohol and drugs and even substances that no one would normally ingest or inject—all to make it through the next...