Weighing up the benefits and risks of smoking
 Smoking's cool isn't it? The way I just look so big, holding that small white stick in my mouth. That's cool.
Know
what else is cool? Stinking of smoke. That's the best - the way that no
amount of perfume will get rid of that smell, it just makes it worse! I
spray loads on myself, so my mum won't find out I'm smoking - now I
just smell worse...I stink of stale smoke and stale
perfume...seriously, the two mixed together don't go nicely. No amount
of mints will get rid of the stench of my breath, but that's ok,
because smoking's cool!
I have to be careful everytime I'm
home. I'm constantly thinking of where I've hidden my cigs, my lighter
- can't have anybody finding them. I'm paranoid - Do I smell? Can my
mum tell I'm smoking by being near me? It's ok though, as long as I'm
smoking, I'm cool...and the best thing? I can quit when I want, I'm not
addicted!
I justify my smoking by lying to myself. I see
old people, yellow stained fingers, near-brown coloured teeth, the
worst wrinkles imaginable. It's alright though, that won't happen to
me, because I'm cool!
I try to justify spending £5 a day
on 20 cigs. That's because I want to smoke, because it's cool, because
I'M cool. Remember, I'm not addicted, I can quit at any point, I just
don't want to - cos smoking is cool.
When I lay down in
bed on a night, I always hear that same sound. Every breath I take, I
hear that quiet little rattle of my chest. Then I wake up every morning
and cough, just before having my first cig of the day. Without that
first cig, with my cup of coffee, I can't function...just keep in mind,
I am not addicted.
I've lived the past 5 years of my life in denial...it's taken me 5 years to suddenly come to the conclusion that I AM addicted and have been since I smoked my very first cig.
If you can tell me what is so cool about smoking, I'll be shocked. What exactly IS cool?
*The fact that you can take in 4,000 chemicals into your body by taking a few puffs on a little white stick?
*The fact that at least 43 of those are known Carcinogens (cause cancer in humans)?
*That you give yourself a constant sputum-producing cough?
*Yellow stained teeth and fingers?
*Stale smelling odour coming from your skin, hair, breath and clothes?
*That you will spend your last bit of money just to get you fixed up with a few cigs for the day?
*The fact that you could be that 1 out of every 2 smokers that will die from your habit?
Tell me what's so cool about smoking...tell me why I shouldn't quit?
I doubt there is anybody who could give me a reason to carry on smoking...
For
you non-smokers...take this as a small warning of what you might be
letting yourself in for if you start smoking...and just ask yourself
one question?
Is it cool??
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