The pleasure of smelling
roses.With amount of money spent by governments on anti smoking campaigns, various controversies over cigarette advertising and number of places where smoking is no longer permitted, ever cigarette smoker in western world must be aware that it is a habit that at least damages their health and at worst will kill them.
And yet, depending on whose figures you take as best estimate, it seems between 15 and 20% of population still smoke cigarettes.
Even though I gave up my 30 plus a day habit nearly 20 years ago, I can still remember that ‘tight’ feeling across my chest in mornings and need for a throat clearing cough after I had brushed my teeth.
I also never realised then that food had so much variety of taste and flavour or that actually being able to smell roses was such a pleasure.
I guess there is little or no chance of my lone voice having any effect when I tell people they really should stop smoking, as they continue to ignore severe warning metered out by great and good.
There has been a great many views expressed on benefits or other wise of smoking so called low tar cigarettes and investigation into subject does indicate that along with habit forming nicotine and hundreds of other chemicals inhaled in cigarette smoke, none of which do you any good, it is sticky tar that leads to repertory difficulties and depressed sense of taste and smell.
