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Smoking
Causes & The Wet Paint Syndrome
It is not just
some thing about smoking. It is a general tendency of every human being.
The moment some body tells us not to do something a strong feeling develops
in us to do the very thing that we were asked not to do. If you want to understand
what I mean, just consider how people really want to touch and get the wet
paint on their hands in spite of a big sign that says ‘wet paint’.
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There
are many laws which we can’t break for fear of ending up in
a cell, but there is no such law against smoking and so it’s
just one big, “it’s my life” kind of attitude that makes most
youth pick up the habit.
We
are all intelligent to know what a message means. When we read
the statutory warning that says, “Cigarette smoking is injurious
to health” we know what it means. Even a kid knows what it
means. It is not like a bolt from the blue. Ignorance is the
last thing that we can connect to the habit of cigarette smoking.
But then when we see a sign that says ‘wet paint’ it is very
much the same thing. The message is loud and clear that the
paint is wet but yet we have to touch and make sure.
Cigarette
smoking may be dangerous to health but just how dangerous is
something that we have to convince ourselves about. But the
sorry fact is that unlike wet paint, we just can’t wash of
the effects of smoking with water or turpentine. Nor do the
effects fade over time, they just worsen. Smoking is not something
that we can experiment with. You just can’t take a risk like
smoke for a couple of years and say, “look guys, I survived.”
It is a matter of life and death.
Smoke
Signals
Then
you might ask, if every body knows that it is such a dangerous
habit, then why do so many people still become, and continue
to remain smokers. Well, the reason is because of a paradox
that is involved in the habit of smoking.
If
all those who smoked, kicked the bucket at the end of the month,
then nobody would even think of smoking. But the paradox is
that not everyone who smokes hits the grave that fast. Smoking
as a habit is a slow killer. It does not paint all smokers
with the same brush of death. On the other hand it is like
a florist who picks a few flowers here and a few flowers there
to adorn the house but at the same time leaves some flowers
on the plant so that the garden does not remain bare.
The
problem is that because cigarette smoke as a killer is so choosy,
most smokers just keep on hoping that he or she will remain
on the plant in the garden forever. In this modern age when
we are all so educated and well informed, isn’t it kind of
silly to leave ourselves in the hands of fate and just keep
hoping that we won’t be next. The funny thing is that we do
have a choice.
But
there’s more to the story. The matter of choice is something
that exists only in the initial stages. At that time it’s just
a puff here and just a puff there, more to impress others than
any thing else. But soon enough things start slipping out of
our control and before we know it we just can’t do with out
our daily dose of nicotine in whatever proportions we demand
it.
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