2005-05-29

Main comic: A blond man in a red shirt holds up an open pack of cigarettes and declares to it, "I DON'T NEED YOU ANYMORE..." Behind him a cheering crowd shouts encouragement: "ALRIGHT!", "WE KNEW YOU COULD DO IT!", "YEH!", and "WE'RE SO PROUD OF YOU, SON!" as if he's quitting smoking. The caption below reads: "Steve would later claim he was speaking exclusively to the third cigarette from the left." Votey: A close-up sketch of a man with a single lit cigarette in his mouth; a bubble points specifically at that one cigarette and reads, "Smoking (that particular cigarette) is not cool!" The joke: his triumphant renunciation was directed at just one individual cigarette, not the habit.