Thursday, February 11, 2010

Thank you for smoking

Title seems to be bit strange , how can one thank for smoking ??? actually who can thank you for smoking ? must be die hard addictor of smoking or may be a marketing manager of some cigarette company. Well i am none of them.
It’s the movie I saw in which our hero, Nick Naylor is a chief spokesperson for the lobby of academy of tobacco studies. He tries his time on debate on the Right of smokers. Interestingly, in the debate members are, our hero who is chief spokesperson on behalf of tobacco lobby , 12 year old Robin suffering from cancer, human rights representative and mother of child. So many people to support against smoking and only one person to defend to the right of smokers !!! I feel pity on him !! Well still he is able to almost win the debate by saying “I earn a living for myself working for the organization that kill 1000 humans a day and we have spent millions of dollars to prove that cigarettes are not addictive !” Host asked him “How on earth would Big Tobacco profit off of the loss of the loss of this young man?” and reply was “I hate to think in such callous terms, but if anything we'd be losing a customer. It's not only our hope, it's in our best interests to keep Robin alive and smoking.”
Well I am not writing here about the right of smoking or in support of smoking but I have an objection for the common mindsets of the people so called good people or anti-smoker’s. who just think they are having the separate religion having much higher level than the people who are smoking. They just look at the people who are smoking with such a grin that separates them from smokers. Especially the girls who really think that the boy who is smoking is not worth of any relationship with her and it’s better to avoid them. Until they don’t know that your friend is smoking they are very good friend of yours but as soon as they come to know about it, something changes !! I don’t know what changes !! person remains the same. Does the nature of person you know changes, Just because he is smoking ?? Yes, In some part there is just a concern from such people that their dear ones should leave smoking. But most of the time there is feeling of hatred , which they do not show it really but keeps on proving to you all the time. What’s the problem if person smokes once in a day or 2-3 times in a week. I really don’t find anything wrong if person smoking just for leisure. Yes, but I do oppose the frequent smoking habit. I always remember my father use to say to me all the time “never get slave of anyone either it’s a person or a thing.”
Sometimes it’s just a feeling to smoke when you people around you are smoking, or it may be weather or in most of the cases it’s a mood. What is the big deal if person smoke’s just for his leisure. Anyways I just want people to stop the critics and the typical absurd mindsets for the smokers as it do not change what the person really is.

P.S : Purely my views and opinion.

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