Do-gooders will never kill off smoking! It’s far too pleasurable and cool. Sorry to break it to you, health freaks! 😊
Don’t forget, I write as a non-smoker. I haven’t enjoyed a cigarette since April 10th, 2022. I am lucky: I don’t crave cigarettes, either. But I would be lying to you if I told you that I don’t think about them. I think about them often, and sometimes daydream about them as well. 😊 There is something so alluring, sexy and cool about seeing someone smoke, especially a man who is handsome and well-dressed.
Of course, I would never encourage anyone to start smoking. (But I wouldn’t discourage them, either.) The main reason being that there can be—yes, can be—serious health risks involved. The dangers of smoking are not the same for everyone. The dangers are multifactoral. The dangers depend on one’s genes, frequency of smoking, quality of cigarette smoked, other current lifestyle habits, the quality of foods consumed and the nourishment derived from them, whether or not one gets adequate sleep, etc.
If one listens to the propaganda, one would be forgiven for concluding that anyone who smokes a cigarette is destined to die of lung cancer. But this is not the case. About 10%, maybe up to 20%, of HEAVY LIFELONG smokers tend to contract the disease.
People have been scared away from the pleasurable habit. Even though I no longer smoke, I abhor this war on smoking. And as for the generational smoking ban, I loathe the very concept. I cannot print what I think of the killjoys who dreamed up the scheme! In any case, like Prohibition, it is destined to fail. BIG TIME. — © Mark Alexander
