Hello All,

   I was going to do a post on loving your fellow homosapien, but as a loud group of the beasts came into work just as we were closing, I’m not feeling particularly charitable to those (usually) lovable creatures… instead I thought I would do a post on the evils of cigarettes…

   Some facts you may or may not have known about smoking;

• Smoking harms not just the smoker, but also family members, coworkers and others who breathe the smoker’s cigarette smoke, called secondhand smoke.
• Smoking gives you cancer.
• If all women quit smoking during pregnancy, about 4,000 new babies would not die each year.
• Quitting smoking saves money. A pack-a-day smoker, who pays $2 per pack can, expect to save more than $700 per year… 

   What bought this on… well I recently caught a young friend (14) smoking, normally I would say; ‘do what you want’; ‘life’s to short’ etc, etc… But here I was thinking that the younger generation had been educated enough to know those above facts (along with; ‘intelligence is sexy’ and ’the more you root around without a condom, the more chances you have of catching an STD’)… I certainly had learnt all these lessons, and I’m only nineteen…

   Apparently I was wrong however, doing some reaserch has showed me some surprising statistics… along with talking to some of my younger friends… some have led a scarily heavy life for ones so young and have gone through things that I don’t want people twice their age going through…

   Perhaps I was being naive, but instead of being that crazily naurotic friend who hands out condoms and uses the basic *Christian sales pitch of death and destruction to get you to stop doing what I disagree with… I will simply post it on my blog, therefore those who want to read it can… and those who don’t, will continue to smoke… I guess.

xNeeky

*I didn’t mean to offend any devout Christians out there… but some of your methods of gaining fellowship have amused me in the past…