gemfyre | Writer's Block: Smoke screen (Reply)

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I have no issues with nicotine addiction.

What I DO have issue with is the most popular way of imbibing that nicotine - the cigarette (and secondarily, anything that gives off smoke).

Smoke gets EVERYWHERE! Cigarette smoke STINKS and clings and is poisonous. I DO NOT want to have to breathe it in or even smell it, alas, if I choose to breathe in public, I probably will breathe it in. I resent this.

Did you know that cigarette butts make up over 50% of the litter stream in W.A.?? (My source is the latest DEC Environment and Conservation News). They start bushfires. Each is a small morsel of toxic waste and they are often eaten by animals. For some reason a large majority of smokers think it's perfectly okay to just ditch their butts wherever.

Cigarettes are awful. The creation of toxic smoke anyone in the vicinity has to deal with for the sake of an addiction pisses me off.

So much I even created a community for it -