Are You STILL Smoking?

Updated May 5, 2004
Alright, This One Has Been Years in the Making

First of all, let’s get the "My Rights" crap out of the way; if you want to smoke then fine - you have a right to do whatever you like to your body. Well almost whatever you like: prostitution; suicide; and selling your kidney on Ebay are all illegal. But other than that, your body is pretty much yours to abuse with cigarettes. There are you happy? Now with that being said – I think that anyone under the age of 50 who smokes is a flaming idiot.

It’s true because there is no way on God’s green Earth that you could have started smoking without knowing that it is bad for your health. Even if somehow you lived in a cave for 10 years; having your cigarettes delivered to you by people who did not speak your language; you’ve had at least the past 30 years to recognize the problem and resolve it. And if you simply choose not to quit smoking because you enjoy cigarettes so much; then you’re a flaming idiot.

I can already hear people whining, “But Bill, you don’t understand; it’s an addiction”. Want to know what I have to say to that? I say, Shut-Up and get a real addiction! I can sympathize for people addicted to alcohol, cocaine, heroin, crack, ecstasy, pain killers, tranquilizers, marijuana even glue or potato chips. I can see how you can try one of these just one time and say, "Hey, that’s pretty good! I feel great! That was fun! Where can I get more of that?!"

But getting addicted to cigarettes is hard. You really have to work at it. The first time you try a cigarette – you cough; gag; maybe even throw up. And in the end you’re left lightheaded with an awful taste in your mouth.

Then you keep trying - going back again and again until you build up enough nicotine in your system to form an addiction? So after your first cigarette when you’ve regained your composure, stopped coughing, wiped the tears from your eyes and the vomit from your lips if you say, "That was great, I can’t wait to smoke another"; then you are a flaming idiot.

I see young people smoking all of the time. That amazes me. I don’t believe that there is a person over the age of 5 that does not know that smoking is bad for them. That means that every smoker under the age of 50 had to have willingly started their habit with the full knowledge that they were beginning an addiction that is both hard to start and to end, with the full knowledge that it is deadly. And don’t try to blame it on the fact that your parents smoked or that television influenced you. Live your own life, take responsibility – quit!

Hey, if you’re a smoker and I’ve hurt your feelings; then I hope you can forgive me, but I’m not sorry. That’s just the way that it is, and if you don’t realize it; then you’re a flaming idiot.

As always your comments are welcome.

Billo

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Copyright 2004, Bill O'Reilly


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