How To NOT Start Smoking
Posted: Sunday, January 10, 2010
by Susan Living
http://www.susansfoodforthought.com
"Don't ever start smoking you hear? It's a disgusting habit.
It stinks, it makes your fingers go all yellow and orange and stains your teeth black and grey. You carry it around with you, like a cloud when you smoke these disgusting cancer sticks. It enters a room with you, comes out in some foul breeze whenever you open your mouth and worst of all, you're always thinking about it. Always distracted, always in the back of your mind getting in the way. Can't get away from it. Stops me from enjoying myself most of the time. Hell, I don't think I do enjoy myself at all anymore these days. Bloody cigarettes. Wish I'd never started.
Oh, and the money! I'm just burning it, wasting it, taking all me hard earned cash and smoking it away. Could've done the house renovation your mother's always wanted it I hadn't smoked. Hell, could've bought another house by now! Bloody cigarettes.
I got this cough now too. You've heard it. All wet and chunky sounding like I'm gonna heave up a lung up soon. Sometimes I hack up this slimy crap too, all yellow with brown chunks in it. Sometimes there's black specks there. I'm real tired too, don't seem to sleep that much at night. Doctor told me I got to quit, me blood pressure's getting higher and higher. Bloody cigarettes. They told me they weren't that good for me. Wish I'd never started.
I remember me Dad too, whenever I seen him, he always had a smoke in his hand or sticking out the side of his mouth. He died when he was 50. He used to tell me never to smoke "Don't go near cigarettes son, they're evil things." But I didn't listen. All me friends were smoking, like they do in the movies. We thought we were really hip. I thought I looked like a real man. It was kinda disgusting at first, didn't taste too good, used to make me head swim and feel sick to me stomach. We kept smoking though! And pretty soon we couldn't imagine not. Had to have em all the time, don't feel right without em. Got so I enjoyed em. Thought they were me friends, always there for me, gave me a little pick me up. Some friends huh? Bloody cigarettes. Wish I'd never started.
But you kids these days, you don't listen! You kids have it easy! Can't smoke in pubs or nightclubs, can't smoke near public buildings, hell, you can't even smoke inside your own home these day! You kids have an easy time not smoking! But I've seen you at the bus stops, groups of you, taking these little puffs, thinking you're so cool, but you can see by the look on your face that it's making you sick. But you keep smoking. You got all these government warnings and television ads, you got education, you got all this information, the internet and school and everyone in your face all the time telling you how bad it is but you still start smoking. You kids have it easy but you bloody don't listen! You still start smoking!
You wanna die? You wanna get all old and stinky and disgusting like me? You wanna be looked down on like a social leper and have people turn up their noses? You wanna be controlled by these things that take so much and give nothing in return? You wanna feel crappy about yourself cos you can't bloody stop smoking? You wanna have no choice? Do ya? Nah, you wanna look cool, look tough, look sexy. You want other people to think you're cool and tough and sexy. You wanna be a rebel. You wanna be admired, wanna be like a movie star. You wanna be different and you think cigarettes are gonna give it to you all. You wanna be like everyone else. Bloody cigarettes. You kids just don't listen. You're gonna wish you never started.
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