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tsh tsh….. have you never quoted live poets?
I don’t think the fear of getting lung cancer is enough to make someone quit. And nor are all the other myriad diseases it causes, like peripheral neuropathy, where your blood supply is reduced to your fingers and toes and they go black and drop off, or chronic obstructive airways disease, which slowly limits the oxygen you can take out of the air until you eventually suffocate to death, or…..
I maintain you have to want to give up.. and i mean really want to, and then you will.
Until then, the benefits of smoking are, that you all can take time away from your desks to go to the smokers corners outside, and socialise with other smokers, when the rest of us non-smoking mugs are still working away… :D Well thats actually the only benefit I can think of, but am sure you can all add a few to the list.
I was trawling the net looking for works by Wendy Cope and I found this. It is extremely relevant both to this thread and to Esme’s take on my missing out the name of the poem and the author.
I won’t post the poem for obvious reasons, but please link to it and read. Maybe we shouldn’t be posting other people’s work at all!
Pepper thank you :)
The standard here is so staggeringly good at times, I am almost embarrassed to post.But hey… if you don’t put it out there, you don’t have the impetus to do better .. or at least to try to.
*goes to look and see who Wendy Cope is* :)
Pink.. for every person who says.. God I wish I could…….
There is a person who has.
And you can too.
I love that moment of epiphany
That moment when you realise something important, and can act upon it
I love my daughter, more than the air I breathe
I love the fact that the past is memorable, and the future a place to make more memories.
I love the fact that I can try to do things, even if I am rubbish at them, and still have fun trying.I was typing that and then had the Trainspotting quote running through my brain. The one where it ends….
“Choose your future.
Choose life.”Oh and I also had… Whiskers on kittens and bright copper kettles running alongside.
Wanders off singing…a few of my favourite things.
Graffiti gravitas
The writing is on the wall
It’s been there for a while
In figures ten miles wide
You’d have to be blind
Not to see.But you walked right on past
Every day
For weeks and weeks
With your eyes looking inward
Patiently focused on the past.
Instead of me.I could have jumped up and down
Naked, with a chicken on my head.
I could have sent helium balloons
Inscribed with Wake Up and
Here I am You W anker!
But I just let you be.I recognised you needed time
And I thought that I could wait
But the all the times I wasn’t there
Stacked up against the wall.
I tried to look deep into your soul but
All I saw was me.When horrors too many to count
Parade each day upon the news
To be so self obsessed mocks
The real pain and anguish others feel.
My heart no longer wants to go
To places yours has been.So the words are scratched upon the wall
And one day, when you waken
And look out upon a different world
You will notice them and read
But will you realise that I’ve gone?
I’ll have to wait and see.©
Anyone who says they enjoy smoking is fibbing. The act of rolling a ciggy, or lighting one up and having that first drag, well then yes.
But by the 10th or 20th in a day…. you have a mouth like an ashtray, cough like a wheezy dog, and your clothes and skin smell foul.
It is our god given right to smoke… it isn’t illegal and if we want to kill ourselves with cigarettes, well that is our concern. And I agree with that viewpoint.
But…
It costs a small fortune to smoke, and okay other things cost too, but I know of people who would rather spend their money on fags than buy their own kids birthday presents. Now that just has to be wrong!As I said before, I know how hard it is to give up. I count myself one of the lucky ones that I managed to kick the habit, and after this amount of time, I feel as though i’ve never ever smoked. It is freedom.
Nobody should be smoking. The addictive substance in cigarettes is nicotine. It would be a very simple thing for the cigarettes manufacturers to slowly reduce the amount in each cigarette until there is no nicotine in them at all. The ONLY reason people are addicted to smoking is because of the nicotine. But that approach smacks of fascism.
A friend just tried to pay her gas bill on line with them. They took the payment twice and when she tried to sort it out it took her half an hour and the phone call cost her an arm and a leg!
This country is going to the dogs.
No offence toy.
Well, not quite yet it isn’t. But maybe one day. :wink:
