Smoking doesn’t kill
Cigarettes alone never killed anyone. You will die someday. The question is just how. You could fall from a building, smash your brain, break all your bones (personal favourite way to die accidentally) or get mauled by dogs (least favourite way to die accidentally). The point is death will find you. Make sure you don’t spend your days in hiding. It will find you somehow someway someday. All you can do, to die when death arrives is, to make sure you’re alive and breathing. Wouldn’t it be disappointing for the Death if not? If Death were anything like the Death from Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, he would want to see the breathing, the colours in your eyes, before he drains them out. Can you imagine the dilemma he would be in, if he couldn’t see either?
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Smoking never killed; overconsumption did. Greed did. Gluttony did. Envy did. All the seven deadly sins did and they will continue to. You could die of even water if you drink beyond your thirst. So again smoking never killed. So don’t kill the smoking. Let’s be kinder to Death. Let’s be considerate. As someone who still doesn’t know how to smoke properly, when Death finds me, I hope to be smoking. So he can see the smoke I cough out, watch it rising, swirling in the air. See my glistening reddened eyes. He would still be able to see my erratic breaths; breathing.
