Yes, here I am sitting in front of a Cigarette Discount Store looking at all those signs about how much $$$ I can save to kill myself one puff at a time! I look at the poor sad folks who enter the store and come out with their week's supply of sickerettes and I can't help feeling total GRATITUDE that I am FREE from ADDICTION! Here I am at the gates of the ENEMY and I recognize it for what it is! Not something I want and certainly not something I NEED! Just poison waiting to kill somebody!And the folks who enter the store don't even know how easy and simple it could be to QUIT and BE FREE! They have no clue how much time, money, self they are sacrificing to their Addiction! They don't even know that they're trapped and chained to an endless cycle of needing to smoke - of needing their FIX! I wish I could stand by the door and hand them a brochure about FREEDOM! I wonder how many would actually take the time to read such a brochure and how many would be too scared to so much as think about quitting! How many had "tried" to quit multiple times and just decided that they "can't quit!" How many already have smoking related illnesses and don't even know it? Maybe some actually know they have smoking related illnesses but still haven't quit? Heaven forbid that any of them are smoking in the house with their children! Yet statistics tell me they are!!! What a terrible drug Nicotine is! It's so insidious!!! It's legal, it's advertised, it's KOOL! I really hate it!I really want to stop the Holocaust that is caused by it! Stroke, Heart disease, COPD, Cancer, Blindness! DEATH! SLOOOOW Painful Death! Why isn't it illegal????
