[ Post a Response | The Sublime Desire of Cigarette Smoking ]
Posted by Marcus on March 30, 2009, 5:41 pm, in reply to "Odd thought before sleeping"
While curiosity prompted me to try smoking, when I did it was with the intention of becoming a smoker. If I found that smoking wasn’t for me, I’d quit. I had learned in school all about the long term health risks and near term consequences. I had learned that smoking is addictive, and I had learned that, initially, a smoker has to deliberately inhale and force his/her body to accept the smoke.
I wanted to learn what smoking was like so I could decide whether or not I wanted to do it. (No way this little boy was going to take his teacher’s word for anything!) I reasoned that the only way to find out was to try smoking and keep doing so until my body no longer tried to reject the abuse
It wasn’t just curiosity, though. I also liked the idea of breaking the rules and not getting caught, of rebelling against all I had been taught. Even after I had beat my lungs into submission and could smoke an entire cigarette without feeling ill, I still didn’t know what it was like to be a smoker. Fortunately, I did enjoy it, and have been able to continue the experiment. You see, I know what it is like to have been a smoker for the last 25 years, and I know how it feels today, and how the effects feel at this point; but I have no idea what it is like to have been a smoker for, say, 30, 40, 42, 50 years. How will smoking feel when I’m 45? How will it feel when I’m 60? So, curiosity caused me to start, and repeated satisfaction of that curiosity is part of what makes smoking so nice.
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