Monday, November 27, 2006

Cigarettes- BLECCH!!!

I haven't smoked a cigarette since 1973. I started back in the late '60's, mainly to try to fit in with the group whom I thought were the "cool girls", who smoked in the girls' bathroom in High School. Back then, there were no smoking areas provided for students. Possession of cigarettes could get you suspended for three days. Being caught actually smoking one could get you suspended for five days.

When I was 17 years old, my mother gave me permission to smoke in my room. This took the fun away, so I quit. I never really liked the habit anyway, and I hadn't learned to inhale at that time. So, quitting was an easy thing for me. My parents both smoked at home, and I was surrounded by what we now call "second-hand smoke". Funny thing, the 2nd hand smoke back then did not make me as ill as the 2nd hand smoke does now.

The cigarette companies must be putting chemicals into cigarettes to keep people hooked. If I sit around with a group of cigarette smokers breathing their noxious fumes for more than an hour or so, I am sick for two to three days. I lose my voice, my throat swells, and I feel nauseous. Cigar or pipe smoke does not have this effect on me. It must be come chemical in the cigarettes of today. I do not permit smoking in my home, despite some of my so called "friends" telling me that this is why they don't like to come over. If they can't respect my house rules, too bad! I guess they are not really my friends.

If I were President, I would make cigarettes illegal. They cause nothing but disease and death. I wish all cigarette smokers would just quit this filty habit right now!!

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