Smoking your senses away!

Warning : All opinions stated in this article are a matter of personal thought and should not be taken to heart.

Its strange how people keep coming up with ways to harm themselves (and others). I stay at a place where 4 quotidian fools (thats what I prefer calling them) begin their day with a cigarette puff. When I started living with these 20-something so called ‘cool’ (thats what they prefer calling themselves) people, I had little idea that they were so hell bent on self-destruction. Gradually I realised that cigarettes had actually blown their common sense away as well. I have hardly come across people who are so proud of committing stupidity. At times I feel astonished at the way these people back their actions with statements as silly as themselves.Some of them being :

• “A cigarette early in the morning will prevent a headache throughout the day.” – I guess from now doctors should begin prescribing cigarettes instead of medicines.

• “By buying cigarettes, you are helping innumerable tobacco traders run their business and in a way helping the economy grow”….Phew!!!!!!!!

• “Smoking helps you control your weight.” The lesser said, the better…

• And of course, the most common of them all, “Smoking is the ‘in-thing’. Its really cool man. The circular rings that you blow out makes you look so hep.” – Well, seems like blowing away your common sense is pretty hep as well.

Well after hearing all these statements, I realised something very clearly i.e. these people are classic cases of minds gone terribly wrong. One can’t help but pity them. I just hope that someday, sometime, by some means, their senses start working again and they regain something thats supposed to be an individual’s most prized weapon i.e. ‘common sense’.

• Piece of advice to cigarette makers :-

Please change that statutory warning imprinted on the cigarette packets to “Smoking is injurious to health and mind.“

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