Do you really feel that you would like to start smoking cigarettes? There are 12 steps for you to follow and help to decide whether or not to be a smoker.
Make a list of the people you know who are smokers.
Don't put anyone on the list who has not been smoking at least one year, this person will not be able to help you as his experience is not up to date.
Be sure to ask non-smokers too. They may be smokers in the past. If so, you can add them to the list.
Ask each person on your list if they mind being interviewed. Do not insist if they do mind.
Tell them that you are doing this because you want to learn from them. In particular, you want to know what they have learned from being a smoker.
Only if they say "yes" should you ask further questions.
Ask them what were their reasons for the started smoking.
Everyone has their story to tell. Some stories will be similar but there will not be the same stories. Ask them if they have ever regretted having started smoking.
Give them room to answer this question in any way that they see it convenient. Different smokers will feel very differently about smoking.
Ask them what they mostly enjoy about smoking.
If they no longer enjoy smoking, let them express it. If they really enjoy having a cigarette after a meal, let that be their answer.
Ask them what they least enjoy about smoking.
If they feel that they get more colds because of smoking, let that be their answer.
Write down all the answers that people give you and keep careful records of these answers.
If you learn from the experiences of others, you probably do not harm to your health.
Saving yourself from unnecessary experiences and learning from the experiences of others is experience that you get for free. It doesn't cost you anything and is the main key to a graceful, healthy and happy future.
Ask the people about the smoking duration.
This is so that you can count the total number of years that all your interviewed respondents as a group have smoked. If you talk to 100 people who have been smoking for 1 year each, you will have 100 years of smoking experience.
Likewise, if you talk to 4 people who have been cheap smoking for 25 years each, you will have 100 years of smoking experience.
If you add these two groups together, you will have 200 years of human experience smoking tobacco.
Don't stop interviewing people's experiences with smoking until you've got over 200 years of human experience. This is important! You don't need the opinions of just a few people. Otherwise, you might not have the final view of smoking, just an unbalanced one.
Expect to be surprised!
The answers that people give you will often be anything but different from what you expected. Remember, each person will have a point of view which is a little bit different because their experience with smoking may vary.
Identify the advantages and disadvantages of being a smoker.
Take a shit of paper. Draw a line down the middle. Name one column as Advantages and the other column as Disadvantages. List them in both columns.
Continue this list to several shits of paper if you have got many important records.
The final step - decide whether or not to be a smoker.
The key moment has arrived. Envelope please!
Trust yourself. You -- with your 200 years of experience as a smoker -- will make a very wise and reasonable decision.
Menthol cigarettes have been under the scrutiny by public health officials and FDA since 2009. There are certain concerns that menthol cigarettes can attract more children to smoke due to their pleasant menthol odor and milder taste.
Critics denounce menthol cigarette marketing campaigns as their main targets are minors and social smokers. Doubtless there is a grain of truth in this issue!!! Of course it is much more pleasant to smoke menthol cigarettes that don't have that stale tobacco odor as other cigarettes do. However the main question needs to be clarified - are menthol cigarettes more harmful than the ordinary ones?
The representatives from Phillip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Lorillard Tobacco Company plan to present scientific evidence that they say shows menthol cigarettes are no more harmful than non-menthol cigarettes. "Our analysis of the published scientific literature and internal studies concludes that menthol added to cigarettes does not increase the inherent health risks of smoking," Jane Y. Lewis, senior vice president for Altria Group Inc., parent company for Philip Morris, said during testimony before an FDA panel.
Moreover, there is an opinion that menthol cigarettes ban can lead to dangerous and illegal black market activity. It is just not reasonable to think that menthol tobacco market, which accounts about 30% of cigarette sales today will vanish overnight. Black market manufacturers will sprout very quickly in case menthol cigarettes will be banned.
Perhaps it's better to present all pros and cons and give smokers the opportunity to decide by themselves whether they do want to continue smoking menthol tobacco.