Smoking

When the word smoking is called what do you recall?
Do you think cigarettes, pipes or cigars, vile repulsive all in all. But there is more to the story with absolutely no glory; so many side effects play such a large role from parents, to children, to innocent bystanders. The pain and the suffering is brought closer day by day, cigarette by cigarette, 5-20 minutes of live reduced by each puff. Not only are humans bearing the pain but also the trees that fall down like rain. For those two-pack-a-day addicts cause numerous trees to fall 54 in all each year. And what do the addicted gain with the shame, lung cancer, emphysema, carbon monoxide, but still no fame. "Quit", people tell them, but nicotine is no game, raised blood pressure, heart attacks, and asthma too, carbon monoxide that sticks to hemoglobin like glue. Suffocating the smoker gagging with the guilt for the innocent lives sentenced to pay the price of the ever constant battle. And even babies so young that they have not yet seen the world are the price of this horrid addiction portrayed, with children arriving at less than four pounds on their very own birthday. Later in life SIDS may take care of the children silencing their wheezing lungs, and the steady beat of their precious heart. Every year nearly 420,000 people fall prey to this infamous curse. In denial or in the dark they become silenced just the same. The animals so sweet, playful, and loyal fall from their feet with nothing but defeat. You could ask how to beat this addiction so strong, that even the most powerful man falls to his knees never to rise again. Well, to you we call, hear our plea, help us prevent with royal decree, public smoking the cause of all those deceased. Stop this disaster before we ourselves fall just like the rest, our voices muted forever in a place where we will never again speak.
Written by: Jessica Larned