Green Ciggies

Cigarettes are going green…

As seen in Toronto Life Magazine, du Maurier is advertising their cigarettes as reducing “impact on the environment”.

I saw this ad and I was shocked and appalled. Apparently it’s okay to smoke, as long as the packaging is ”green.” Anyone else see the absurd irony in this?

Cigarettes will cause cancer and imminent death, but hey – the environment is A-okay! It deeply disturbs me that cigarette companies have taken this approach when trying to get individuals to smoke their cancer sticks. Now, the so-called ‘benefits’ are being put on these ads, to reach the earth friendly individuals out there. For each extra sale as a result of this marketing campaign, though the environment may not be suffering, what about the impact on the health care system or the health of the individual smoker or those around them?

What happens when naive individuals transfer the green packaging on to the cigarette itself – thinking if it’s not harming the environment, how could it possibly be harming lungs?

I thought the next step in terms of cigarettes was to make the drugs, which are 100% harmful, illegal. Instead, cigarettes are now GREEN!

This world is a scary place, and it just got a little bit scarier.

Bad Service Rant

Recently I went to a restaurant called Maki Sushi – which serves all you can eat Japanese food – for dinner with a group of 7 friends. Though I enjoyed my meal, it ended with a kicker. After we all had given in our credit cards or cash to pay for our dinners, the waitress returned and informed us she had undercharged us – having given us the amount for a weekday dinner as oppose to a weekend.

I was shocked. Not only did she practically blame her mistake on us, but was totally disrespectful in the process. Here I was, having paid already, handed back my cash and told I had to give more. Since it wasn’t worth my time to deal with the small cost increase, I spitefully left every penny I could dig up to pay the additional amount.

In my opinion, when the waiter screws up, the difference in dollars should come out of his or her tips, not the pockets of the customers. Customer service is going down the drain these days. It doesn’t seem to matter that without the customer, the restaurant itself would not exist.

Needless to say, Maki Sushi has lost my future service.