A while ago my local paper printed every known chemical that is contained in cigarettes and cigarette smoke. It took up an entire page and they used a pretty small font.

Smoking is bad for you.

Don't care about the chemicals? Fine, did you know that tobacco companies use hardwood to smoke the tobacco faster? Did you know that they are one of the leaders in the deforestation problem that this planet has? Even if you don't care about the whole chemicals thing then how about the planet? Care about that?

Smoking is bad for you.

Okay, you don't care about the planet and the chemicals. How about the fact that youi are a mindless slave. Don't believe me? Try to quit. Seriously try. Hard isn't it? That's the nicotine talking. If you smoke a pack of cigarettes a day then you are ingesting between 20 and 40 milligrams of nicotine a day! No wonder it's so hard to quit. You are officially a slave to the tobacco company and they are making you pay for it.

Smoking is bad for you.

In the end, there really is no other option than to not smoke. Cigarette smoke is an invasive thing. It floats from your cigarette and goes after whoever is nearby. Do you like your privacy invaded? Most people don't, but that's what you do everytime you smoke anywhere. Excuses are exactly that, excuses.

Movies glamourize the whole thing. K.D. Lang did an album on it. People tend to think of it as romantic. It's not. It's a process of delivering a harmful drug along with a series of poisons to your body that they do not need. Your lungs were designed to suck air. That's it. everything else is harmful to you, the planet and the people around you.

Stop being a slave. Stop hurting your magnificent body. Stop helping the planet along in the destruction that we bestow upon it's fragile surface every day.

Smoking is bad.