If You Smoke Cigarettes...

...you must not think too highly of yourself. 


Prior to quitting, I smoked 30 - 40 cigarettes a day for 17 years. So, as you read this, I don't want to hear about how I don't know what I'm talking about.


I was fifteen years old when the first few cigarettes got me dizzy from oxygen deprivation. For those of you who've never smoked, take twenty short breathes, in and out as quick as you can. That is the big attraction. If you continue to smoke beyond that initial dizziness then life as you knew it is over!! 

You are addicted to a drug called NICOTINE.


You can lie to yourself, but not to me. Do not tell anyone in public that you smoke because you like it. You sound like an idiot. You smell like shit. You're addiction has you standing in front of buildings in zero degree weather, smoking cigarettes. You most likely cough up phlegm balls in the morning. Who do you kiss that doesn't think your breath smells like an ash tray? Tried walking up a flight of stairs lately?


If you smoke a pack a day at $7.75/pk, it's costing you $2,828.75 a year! Most young teenagers who start smoking, don't earn that money in a year's time.   
It's costing the rest of us, billions of dollars in wasted health care costs to keep you alive. You will succumb to emphysema, or black lung, or COPD, or cancer. There are poor retired people living on a $900 social security check and  spending $235 of it on cigarettes. Mentally ill people living on a small stipend from their state and spending $235 of it on cigarettes. There are people who do not have health care at all, and spend $235 every month on cigarettes. 
  


Did I say Cancer?


Take your pick, it could be throat cancer, lung cancer, cancer of the larynx, some of you who chew tobacco will end up with lip cancer, tongue cancer, or cancer of the jaw bone. Here is what that might look like. 


Don't you look away! I've gone out of my way to go easy on you.
These are images of people who never thought this would happen to them.
  

   

As you can see, these types of cancers don't usually kill you, but you will wish you were dead. 


 Cigarettes have no positive purpose in the human experience. Nada, not a thing. And what I can't understand, is this...


While the Democrats are busy trying to provide health care for everyone, and the Republicans are try to avoid paying for health care, no one has ever mentioned banning the manufacture and import of tobacco products into the United States. 


Most states in America have been increasing cigarette taxes as a deterrent to smoking. Really? Cigarette smoking is a malaise, a disease that needs to be eradicated from society. Raising taxes on cigarettes only ends up paying for the health care of the smokers who can't afford to care for themselves? What kind of policy is that? 


It seems that, as a nation, we'll do anything to avoid upsetting the tobacco industry, and as I far as I'm concerned, that whole industry should be sent straight to hell. 


English slang refers to cigarettes as "fagots". In my book, if you can't quit smoking, you're the fagot. Fagot!