Dear stupid people smoking inside the bus shelter:

[Zorra]

21. People look so silly when they smoke I can't even stand to look at them

because I am embarrassed for them.

Nicotine is a tragic, terrible, life controlling addiction, and the Republican individuals corporations that produce tobacco and promote the use of tobacco are nothing but sociopathic murdering dope dealers intent on hooking children for life on the deadly substances they profit from.

My mother died of smoking when I was 10, her sister, her sister, my aunt, died of smoking two years later, and one of my beloved relatives has a death by smoking sentence hanging over his head right now. Another beloved friend died of smoking 5 years ago. And almost all of my friends who smoke cough like they have a wet pretzel stuck in their lungs, and can hardly walk half a block without gasping for air like a fish out of water.

I think of how horrible it must be, lying on the operating table, staring up into the cold fluorescent lights, the Marlboro lights I call them, as they remove parts of your lungs in a desperate futile attempt to keep you alive.

Smoking is so cool and glamorous, isn't it?