Heavy Smoking Day

Unable to quit, smoking is killing
Palestinian flower growers.
Majed Hadayed said, “It’s a major

pain. They look like they’re having fun,
carrying heavy items and fitting into small spaces.
They are more likely to die on Thursday.”

In video footage shown this week
Hadayed gleefully fed two truckloads
of the flower growers to sheep.

-- Jennifer Edgecombe

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