We have
suspected for a long time and since the Surgeon General’s Report that smoking is
bad for your health
For oncology
departments and funeral homes the habit creates a lot of wealth
Too
many cases of lung cancer, too many cases of heart attacks, too many cases of
strokes
Before
you develop too much sympathy remember for every ten smokers who die maybe one non
smoker dies from second hand smoke
Despite
years of higher taxes, anti smoking ads, and curbs on where you can light up and
all manner of efforts to this habit snuff
Nicotine
is more addictive than cocaine and breaking the urge to smoke is really very
tough
All
around you see people chewing nicotine gum or a patch of nicotine
A
safer way to deliver a drug from which after being hooked most smokers would
like to wean
We
now find that in the El Cajon shooting of an unarmed black man
All
he was pointing at police was a vapor in his hand
No
body cams which without which how do you detect or absolve any police crime?
Thank
God for a phone video showing this killing in real time
As
a white poet a sense of relief that I am not going to be shot on sight
With
respect to black males what we are doing is not right
We
as a nation have dumped people with mental issues into the streets
Shame
on us that someone so suffering gets fatal bullets to greet
© September 30, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the
Alaskanpoet
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