really,...................is there one person left in this world that thinks smoking isn't bad for them? now,......I'm not taking about smoking a little weed from time to time. I'm talking about smoking tobacco one after the next. most smokers of the weed don't smoke as much, as tobacco smokers do. i'm not saying that smoking weed is good for you. actually,.........i'm not saying anything about weed at all.
i can't believe all the folks that won big money in the lawsuit against the big tobacco companies. kind of like that silly assed woman that burnt her coochie with hot coffee at the Mickey D's drive thru. she knew that coffee was hot the same as smokers had to know that it wasn't good for you!!
i can't believe that I've been smoking for over thirty years now. my lungs must be as black as a chunk of coal. I've managed to quit a few times, but the addiction is so strong that i always start back. there is nothing glamorous about smoking, and i simply started because of peer pressure, and the buzz.
the first time that i inhaled smoke into my lungs i bet that i turned a pale shade of green. i started coughing, and hacking like i was going to die. then seconds later after that sickness left my body i felt the buzz. y'all remember? when we first started smoking we used to get a mild buzz off of it. it wouldn't last long, but still a buzz. if you ever quit for a couple days, or longer, and start back you will get the same effect all over again.
anyway,...........back to what I'm really getting at as if that's not bad enough to begin with. i meet some very interesting people in my daily travels. i have no idea where they come from they just pop up. i'm a fairly friendly fellow, so i have no trouble talking with people. i was at the bus stop in front of Memorial Hospital waiting on the same bus as usual. usually i have 45 minutes to wait, because they just don't run together.
i noticed this man standing out in front of the hospital smoking, and he eventually made his way to the bus stop. i ask him if he was waiting on the bus also, or had a loved one in the hospital. he said that he was waiting on the bus, but he had just finished his last visit to the hospital that he would be making for a while. seeing how this confused me, and the fact that i am nosy, i asked what he meant by that statement.
he went to tell me that he had cancer. he said it's the kind caused by smoking. he went on to tell me that he was a dead man, because the cancer caused by smoking hides in your small cells during radiation treatment, and they move around, depending on what part of the body is being radiated that day. he said that they love to hide in the brain which that was his reason for the last trip today to have his brain nuked. he said they never get them all, and they can't radiate a part of your body more than once.
he continued to say that he wasn't surprised, because he knew the risks that he was taking when he first started. he said that it would take a damn fool to think that smoking might not kills them. his cell rang in his pocket, and he answered it pulling his skull cap off at the same time. his head was as slick as an onion from the radiation. before i could continue taking to him our bus came. we got on, and set in different seats. when he got off he stopped by me, and shook my hand telling me that it was really nice to meet me, and to have a nice life!!
this is a sad way to check out!! can you imagine already being dead, and just waiting to fall over? i don't know anything about his past, but i sure can tell you about his present. this man is enjoying every moment that he has left on this earth, and spreading the love in his heart every where that he goes. i know that we all have to go eventuality, but i don't want to go like that. that is his cross to bare, and i don't want it to become mine.
the state of Florida has this elaborate stop smoking plan, and it's totally free. they will give a free smoke free kit. they say that they have a very high success rate, and i have a very low one. i need to quit, because I'm simply too old to be smoking, and I'm not ready to die from it!!
here is a couple links if you interested in stopping?
www.smokefree.gov/
www.tobaccofreeflorida.com/
.....................much love
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