NO TO NO SMOKING!

I feel lonely on a rainy evening. i have had a tiff with my girlfriend in the morning, closing on any chances to meet up later in the day and wishing to watch a rainbow together. i think and think hard about what to do but fail to single out any idea. i venture out of my apartment, go to the nearest cigarette shop and ask for a Marlboro Lights. I light it,inhale deep,inhale deeper. my lungs get filled with the smoke. i blow it out. a few more puffs and i feel relaxed. i don't mind getting wet alone....

A cigarette is something which is as loved as it is hated. i love it.i love to blow out numerous rings of its smoke by glueing my tongue to the palate. i feel light, i feel detached from everything and everyone during those 3 minutes i take to finish a stick. i have it while i am happy, i have it when in gloom. all i want to tell to those losers who miss out on the sheer pleasure of taking a drag of a cigarette is it's something worth of giving a try.

I have learnt from my schoolbooks and newspapers and from where not that cigarette smoking is injurious to health. it is even mentioned on each cigarette pack. i am aware of various health hazards a cigarette can induce in a human body. these vary from cancer to tuberculosis and from bronchitis to asthama. i have seen people throwing despising glances towards the smokers;in theatre lobbies,on roads and so on. i see my country's health minister attacking soft targets like some film stars for smoking on screen and hammer them with utmost criticism. but he fails to attack his ministerial collegue who has had a cancer surgery for his famous tobacco addiction. chewing tobacco and keep spitting it time and again is allowed in local trains and buses while cigarette smoking isn't; though both contain nicotine.

Smokers are considered as a nuisance. Surveys claim that girls don't tend to date the guys who smoke. my own girlfriend disregards me whenever i light up a cigarette. my parents advise me not to smoke, get sentimental and ask me to swear by god for not smoking. i listen to all and try to quit smoking.

The next day i go to college. i travel. i roam with my friends. i see people smoking, blowing off the smoke. but i remember my pledge and suppress the urge to smoke. i begin to feel the magic of that paper stick richly filled with nicotine,tar and even carbon isotopes. it makes me crave for it. i realise that my eyes, my nose, my lips, my lungs, my hands, my windpipe, my teeth all have a great love for it. pleasure takes over determination. i go to the nearest cigarette shop. i ask for a Marlboro Lights. the index and middle fingers of my right hand unite for the purpose they serve me the best. i can always quit the cigarette tomorrow,i tell myself.

one thing i know today is that a cigarette, if not a necessity, remains a desire for me. i can have it during a day, i can have it in night. i can have it while travelling, even in my bed. i finish a few back to back when i'm on cloud nine. it becomes an adventure if i mange to have even a single drag when i go on family picnics. taxiing a cigarette with 4-5 friends is an experience in itself. a cigarette when i have cough gives pain, but worth a gain. if you are a non-smoker, you would wonder what gain do i get from it. i would like to suggest you to throw away all your hate and apprehensions regarding a cigarette, light a stick handsomely and take a deep drag of a well-lit cigarette.

I hope you enjoy your smoke.