Reminiscing the long road: stories
of fallen family members, bellying
up to the bar at age 4, dodging
bullets and hooligans for the sake of
a cigarette and being read last rights
just because I smoked too much.
Bearing witness to the battle to undo
what 400 years of tobacco addiction
has done. Seeing how the tobacco
industry has jumped, with both feet,
into the e-cigarette and cannabis
marketplaces, they understand
that while cigarette smoking is
becoming passé, it's cool to sport
an e-cig (aren't we techno-chic?)
and now it's hip (and legal) to smoke
weed (dude!) After all, Marlboro
began its rise to the top as a fashion
accessory. Big Tobacco is making
certain that smoking remains an
entrenched habit. They are counting
on the relationship they have with
you to be a "til death do we part".
With smoking, mostly, death is why
you part. The Industry is making
an end run. And there's NO health
organization or advocacy capable of
stemming this smoldering tide...like
a coal mine fire that never goes out...
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