but first ....... I signed in to post a blog, and see some of the other blogs of the morn....including AZTEC. Sometimes it's as though we are reading each other's minds, I love when these "unofficial themes" show up!
Anyways, for many years I was one of those "head in the sand" smokers. When those annoying anti-smoking commercials came on, I'd quickly change the station, and sometimes step outside for a cigarette "break" with an attitude of defiance. Of course, I was hoping that my kids didnt notice the commercial or the channel flipping, I certainly didn't want to hear their "see, Mom?" comments. It was as though IF I DIDNT KNOW, then those nasty effects wouldn't happen to me. Cancer, Emphysema..... those were for "other people" and then we started seeing commercials for COPD medications, I mean, REALLY.......who made THAT ONE UP??? A conspiracy of the pharmaceutical companys for sure! Of course I knew that smoking was "bad" for me; and of course I knew that second hand smoke was "bad" for my kids, but hey, "we didnt smoke in the house!"
(In recovery programs we call this kind of irrational thought process "denial" - ha!)
Now, I'm eager for the facts and research and I'm saddened for the unwillingness to know TRUTH. both mine and others. Sometimes I want to ask..............do you REALLY know how you're killing yourself?
http://www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/TobaccoRRS_v16.pdf
