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DID YA KNOW ‘SMOKING’ KILLS
I CURSE THE VERY FIRST TIME I picked up one of those bloody things and placed it to my mouth. It was sadly as a teenager, I don’t know why, I mean secondary school was filled with messages of not succumbing to peer group pressure, why oh why didn’t I listen.
I was such a sheep, lead to the cigarette like a moth to a flame; did I really think sucking deadly toxins down into my lungs was cool? I remember meeting my friends after school to practice smoking, huh, this just gets worse, the art of dragging a cigarette deep into my oesophagus and opening my mouth while the smoke lie stagnant at the back of my throat.
Think of how much money I could I have saved, cigarettes are getting more and more expensive, a recent 25% rise in price with the next 2 years set to do the same, this is thing that really kills you, even if the cancer won’t. Oops I dropped the ‘c’ word, most smokers will naturally try to avoid, but how can you avoid the examples of such, garnishing each tightly clad pack.
Why oh why, do I continue to pursue nicotine, um maybe, because it’s now an addiction, and I’m clearly in its trap. Oh me oh my, for little did I know that it would begin a lifetime of slavery, a slave to the drug, for it is a drug and nothing else. The addiction is resent less, when you’re feeling sad you need to smoke, when things are going along well, you just want to smoke.
I wish I had never picked up that first cigarette and placed to my mouth, I wish had of listened to the things they were telling me in school. I wish had every dollar that I had spent on cigarettes, sitting safely in a high interest earning account. I wish I knew for sure that I didn’t have stage 1 cancer eating away at my lungs. I wish I wasn’t addicted and could go stop immediately and never to go back.
Oh me oh my, I think too many things, think it’s time to go now and maybe have a cigarette!
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