stop smoking

April 6th, 2008 by admin

Stop smoking!  It should be just as easy as simply stating it, right? Wrong.  Did you know that nicotine is just as addicting as heroine?  Smoking is no longer the "cool thing" you do outside of class, behind the school building.  From the first two times you try smoking, you could just as easily become addicted.  My dad started smoking when he was 17 years old and is still addicted almost forty years later.  A bunch of my friends who started smoking because it was "something to do" back in high school are now addicted ten years later.  The funny thing is, when it comes to smoking tobacco products, no one even blinks an eye.  To say that you’re "addicted" to smoking is almost treated as a joke.  After all, how can you be "addicted" to smoking?  The common misconception is that addiction is something you associate with illegal activity and/or drugs.  But with smoking, it’s different.  You can buy a carton of cigarrettes over the counter almost anywhere you go.  It’s not illegal. Perhaps if cigarrettes were made illegal, people would feel differently.

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