Studies show smoking may cause lung cancer.
If you are pregnant, you should not smoke.
Even smokeless nicotine is bad for you.
This can cause mouth cancer.
Vaping was all the rage.
This isn’t good for the body either.
But if you stop smoking, you might gain weight.
Crunching candy and downing sodas make you porky pig.
Even sugar free and diet sodas have chemicals.
If you stop smoking, you will find another addiction.
This is what the human mind does.
You will make excuses and find a replacement.
After days of not smoking, you unroll a cigarette.
Sniff what was once rich smelling tobacco.
You are not pregnant and have every reason to smoke.
The cigarette looked good in between fingers.
But the throat remembers great pain.
The body is sluggish already.
This smell reminds me of your breath.
Such foul odor leaving your mouth.
It just wasn’t smoke filling the air.
All the bullshit you did was there too.
You suffocated everyone close to you.
You never cared as you believed.
Studies show parents forget their past.
When the spotlight is dark, they hide.
The grandma ignores her choking of secondhand smoke.
She loves her emphysema more than herself.
Her compromise was worth it.
Her eyes no longer see the sun.
Everything is more important than her misery.
She doesn’t need warmth when she has her man.









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