Smokers!

What is it with smokers? Why do so many of them seem to think that the whole world is their ashtray? It's ridiculous. I was driving the other evening, and I pulled up on the left of a white van at a stop light. As I watched, the driver first flicked his ashes out the window onto the pavement, then he dropped his lit cigarette onto the ground. That really burns me up (no pun intended), and cigarettes dropped from cars start fires. This past summer, a large fire was started from a lit cigarette dropped from a car on a freeway. A hillside burned, and a house burned down. A house burned down, and a family lost everything because someone was STUPID enough to throw/drop a lit cigarette from his/her car! And the smoker probably has no idea that it was him/her who caused the fire. That was just one incident. How many other fires have been caused by careless and STUPID smokers?

And why do smokers think it's okay to poison other people's lungs? If they want to smoke to death inside their own homes and cars, what do I care? That's their right, I suppose. But what right do they have to poison anyone else's lungs? None. And that includes children in a home with smokers. What right does any parent have to smoke? None. Some belligerent smokers claim that non-smokers are oppressing them and trying to deny them their right to pursue happiness. This is a false argument. The fact is, no one has a right to poison the air of another.

I wonder how much of air pollution is caused by the billions of cigarettes smoked every day.

Tryin' to breath clean air here,
bIsh