MY FIRST TIME SMOKING

It was 1973!

My very first job at a printing plant in the shipping & receiving dept. It was not until about three months later It was a Saturday morning. My parents and I were at our favorite restaurant we went to in the mourning. And I decided since I did “Some” money on me (At that time I was making $65.52 a wk. after taxes! You don’t ever forget you how much money you made the at your first job!).Why not buy some cigars? At The time I did which cigars were the good stuff (The quality ones!). Or the cheapies (I learned fast about that one!).

I bought the ones with the plastic holders. Aromatic ones. Over time I got to a point that! I could not stand the aromatic ones., After I left work. And got home! I began smoking them. Then I went to the drugstore and bought another pack of cigars. Smoked them. And then another and then another then another so on!

In the afternoon! I took a nap. When I woke up! I had this nasty taste in my mouth. My mom looked at me and said: “You’ve been smoking!” She said with a smile on her face. She said: “I seen you buy the pack of cigars and I figured you are working, making money why not!”

All the kids in the neighborhood said: “You were smoking like a fish!”

It was at that point that I learned “Lighten up on the stogies!”

As time went on! I learned about cigars. Not to be a connoisseur of cigars! But which ones I did like and which ones I did not.

The ones that I did like were: A & C Grenadiers dark wrapper, Triplet flavored cigars the one I loved so much! Was the blueberry smell & flavor (Yes! I said flavor because when you picked up the pack! And smell the box you could smell the blueberry sent). They also had apple, cherry, natural as well.

As I got older! I shifted gears if you will. I went to smoking a tobacco pipe! Again I learned as I went along about the type and kinds of pipe tobacco there is.

Again! I tried aromatic blend it was all right but you know ( I found out that most people who were on the receiving end of smokers tobacco product(s), aromatic was the more accepted sent!). There was one that was good. A flavor called “French brandy”. Then I Became a lover of Borkum riff flavored tobacco products. They had cherry, rum, cognac, Champagne.

Now keep in mind! I am not! A real, true smoker in the fullest sense of the word.

I am on again! Off again smoker. Even for me! These e-cigarettes I am not “Head over heels about them”. For all anyone knows! This is a Alt. to get around the no smoking laws.

But as I have researched! Even the these have the nicotine as well.

There is a point in each & everyone’s life where we do have to consider our health Vs. fitting in because everyone else is doing it?

WHAT! NO TOBACCO PRODUCTS????????

With CVS no longer selling tobacco products.

It’s the shape of things to come!

It’s only a matter of time when we will see even more retailers no longer selling it as well.

Is this a social Consciousness movement we now have between us?

 

Some thoughts what we shall see.

We already see some people pick through the public ashtrays just to find a butt that is just long enough to smoke even if it means getting someone else’s germs form whom they do not know!

Are they sacrificing health?

For the sake of cost?

Which is the lesser of the two evils?

All for the sake of trying to keep from spending for another pack/carton of cigarettes!

Even more! People bumming cig’s of another fellow smoker.

And what if they refuse to help an another smoker out by giving s/he one?

All I can say is this!

I will not even begin to draw a picture of what can happen.

However! Think about the gas shortage of the 70’s!

And you have an idea what can if not will happen!

KEEP IN MIND!

We already have the one retailer no longer selling tobacco products!

It is only a matter of time before we see the rest of them follow along and see “true effects of tobacco has on humans!”

 

What will tobacco companies do for profit when their sellers dry up?

Have people hand out cigarette samples to people who need/want them but! At what price will they charge?

A black mkt. For tobacco products?

Do not laugh!!!

Where the open mkt. Will not!

The black mkt. Can and will!

But! At what price is the tobacco users willing to pay for their enjoyment?

 

I have often wondered?

Since businesses have their employees smoking outside!

Is it really a “”God given right to smoke?”

Is it a “God given right to freeze & sweat your “You knows off” Just to continue smoking?

From all that we have seen and heard and know and from our loved one’s dying from all kinds/types of diseases from tobacco use.

 

To those of you!

Remember when you began?

That first cigarette?

What were your environments like that made you take that first drag?

Peer pressure?

They are doing it!

I might as well just for the sake of fitting in!

RARELY!!!!!

Do I hear stories about Doctors telling their patients, “You want to calm your nerves?”

“Take up smoking!”

Both! Can and are addictive in their own right!

There is a difference between smoking to calm your nerves!

And taking MEDs to calm your nerves!

One prolongs the problem!

The other creates another problem!

When it comes to smoking!

Is it “Mind over matter?”

Or “Matter over the mind?”