So I have been making some strong comments about smoking. I really can't stand it and most smokers are so obnoxious about their habit and throw butt's on the ground. When did that become okay?To my smoking friends. I still love you. I will continue to even if you choose to smoke. I just wish you wouldn't! I don't know if you can help someone quit but let me know if I can do anything to help.
My Dad used to smoke. A long time ago now. I know he tried to quit a couple times but I remember about the time he did quit. I went to 6th grade science camp and at the end of that week we were told to make two wishes, write them on a piece of paper and throw them in the fire. One of my wishes was for my Dad to stop smoking. That year was the last time I remember my Dad smoking. I am so so glad he stopped and I am sure that has extended his life and dramatically improved the quality of it. I realize that it is hard. However it seems like you should do everything possible to quit. In Europe all tobacco has to be labeled like the Marlboro pack in this picture because it kills you. If you light up you KNOW it is decreasing the quality of your life and killing your body! If you or someone you love smokes, do everything you can to help them quit.
I went through my tobacco phases don't get me wrong. Luckily I was young and dumb and it didn't last long.
At 16 I started working at Little Ceaser's Pizza. I remember a couple people would go out back for a smoke break every hour and I would have to stay and work. So I decided to get in on these smoke breaks, plus it makes you look cool and you are a rebel. I went to 7 eleven and went to go buy some cigarettes. My Dad smoked Marlboro's so I wanted be even more of a rebel so I asked for a pack of Camels. "Regular?" the guy asked. What, uh I don't know. If I took too long deciding he would know I was under age. "uh, yeah regular, right!" So he sold me a pack. I then realized that regular meant unfiltered. I noticed that pack was small and stubby. I got back to the ally behind little Ceaser's and tried to smoke a unfiltered cigarette. It did not go well. I coughed up half a lung and wanted to throw up the rest of my shift.
After that I moved on to bigger and better things. later that year I was hanging out with a group of guys a few years older than me that I thought were the coolest. My friend Chad Oltoff and Bret Dewey were hanging out and were going to a friends birthday party. I noticed their fat lips and constant spitting and thought what is cooler than spitting with guys? That introduced me to chew and their personal brand Kodiak. It smelled like gum and they said it gave you a little buzz, sign me up! I took a big pinch and put it between my cheek and gum. It didn't taste bad, had to spit out the juice, and I had a nice buzz going. SO now I was COOL for sure. I was with my older friends with some dip in my mouth feeling nice and relaxed. We showed up at our friends birthday party and decided we should discard the tobacco before we went in. SO I swallowed it! I was done, nothing wrong with swallowing it?! I was wrong, this is not the thing to do. I told Chad and Brett what I had done and I saw the look of horror in their eyes. We went into the party and as I was saying happy birthday to the birthday girl I power vomited all over her feet and my own. It was living hell. I remember praying to God that if I lived through this sickness I would never do it again. On the way home Brett thought it would be funny to do donuts in the cul de sac to torture me. He thought it was funny until I threw up all over the side of his car.
I experimented with cigars and pipes. I was really into pipes a few years back. I had a little collection. Again I thought it was cool and sophisticated. Jeannie hated it and I think she prayed to God I would stop. One day, I just didn't like it and had no desire. I gave away my pipes and want nothing to do with tobacco now. FREEEDDDOOOMMMMMMMM!
(Again I know my Grammar is bad, and My Mom told me I should check it. I refuse HA HA , you are not the boss of me Mom :) I am grammar free and I want all of you bad spellers to untie with me)
