Entry #6 Grim's Wrath within a Somber Inhale

Let's take a scroll to a time when life was simple. Where the man of the house hold would go to work from nine to five, while the wife kept the house clean and neat. As the kids all played outside and made a mess of the neighborhood. Some would say that it was such a sexiest time period of American history. Although that may be true that isn't what I want to discuss, the major problem of this era of our history was the fight of our lives. When I look back at this time I remember movies of house wives siting at there dinning room smoking cigarettes. The long stem full of rich tobacco, but over the year these tobacco leaves were filled with chemicals.

Their toxicity began to grow to such levels where no one knew what it's true danger was. After many deaths and research we learn a couple things about cigarettes, it's addicting and it kills. Keeping in mind that it does these two things, over the generations we were taught it was "cool" to smoke. That you were in the "in crowd" unless you smoke with your friends. Peer pressure had a majority of one generation smoking. Yet those implications didn't stop there, over year of research the population began a fight which they eventually won. It was a long journey that left some in the grave. Or worst a hole in their throat.

I can remember in the early thousands a movie called Thank You for Smoking came out. It's contents explored the world of corporations forcing the youth through product placement to smoke. Filled with facts and fiction about the myths of smoking. I was left with one single thought. Why did I fall for the peer pressure to take that first inhale?

After fifteen years of smoking I can say the addiction never fades. Even with a family member on the slim slope of having  emphysema, it never stops. Sometimes the itch will be within my grasp, to grab that small tiny cigarette and a lighter just to light it. To put it in my mouth and inhale that sweet nectar till it fills my lungs and then to exhale it and feel it leave my body.