How Does That Butt Taste?
Are you smoking a cigarette while reading this? You’d better not be. That’s the message President Obama wanted to convey on Monday when he signed into effect a new law on smoking.
The law, the toughest ever, bans advertising or luring youth through flavored cigarettes and cigars. It also forbids advertising at sporting events, free samples, and the use of “mild” or “light” in describing cigarettes. Finally, tobacco companies will have to fully disclose all ingredients used in cigarettes, as well as use graphic images on their packs to illustrate the effects of smoking on the body.
Gotta say, Obama’s got a point. Smoking is basically like a socially acceptable form of prolonged suicide. It is by far one of the worst things you could ever do to your body. In the time you took to read this paragraph so far, someone, somewhere in the world has died of cigarettes. It happens every 8 seconds. Yet in the last minute, 10 million cigarettes were purchased around the world. Some of them will have been purchased by the 3000 American youth that tried smoking for the first time ever today. And of them, half of the ones who become long-term smokers will die in the future from a tobacco-related illness.
So you’ve heard the same message from your health teacher or parents before. You’re sick of hearing the same old thing. It still doesn’t change the fact that what they say is true. Is this stressful to hear? Are you thinking of going out for a smoke because of it?
Just know that if you do, you’ll shorten your life by 11 minutes, every time you light up.
The problem I have with Obama smoking is that he is practically a walking advertisement to youth. Many teens look up to him, therefore, he has a greater responsibility to quit. In the conference he claimed to be 95% healed. http://www.newsy.com/videos/the_800_lb_cigarette_in_the_room However, that’s not enough when your actions are copied by the Nation’s young.
the dude in that picture is going to die