Just my little thoughts,

Week 7 Journal 6 October 5, 2006

I’d Rather Smoke then Kiss

In this news commentary magazine you see Florence King’s Strong opinion on smoking.  She says that she has been smoking for approximately 28 years and she rather enjoys it. She goes on to explain how her mother was an addict. Her mother started smoking at the age of 12 to be rebellious. Smoking all through her pregnancy and not cutting back. Florence stats that she didn’t grew up up living a healthy life even with all the smoke she lived around.

King continues on a little bit about her mother and her life and how she started because she was a writer. Telling us about how cool this one cigarette box was so cool looking.  Buying two packs she emptied them out and used them for paperclips. She later picked one up and has been on them ever since.

While reading this commentary I could almost feel the rage she portrayed in it. She went on and on about how people don’t like smokers. It sounds like she had run into quite a few of them.

She pointed out that the government is okay with it. The way the article was written seemed as if it was good people smoke, because then they die before they have to retire and then the gov. wouldn’t have to pay for the retirement.

Going on, her voice really stood out and it made me see what its like from the smokers point of view. I think that those of us who ’ smoke could feel guilty reading this. At the same time however I still think that people should stop smoking. Even though they like it there hurting themselves in the long run. But none of us can stop them.