Why Should I Stop Smoking Now?

Smoke Stubbed Forever

Now is a very present term. It identifies that this second, if to become a moment, is a imperative. Imperatives never achieve as seconds become moments as hours become days and life is long. The now of this question presumes a necessity. Why stop smoking? This is an imperative as noted by the American Heart Association and the American Cancer society. An imperative vast for an individual said to have a nicotine addiction.

What is a heart but the beat of life. A lung but a breath of fresh air. And the “now” both organizations suggest will see us healthier and stronger, living longer. There once was a man very happy with the now of life. This time, this moment. A millisecond. Joy too has the imperative of now.

Obviously I am not totally believing of the American Medical Community in it’s condemnation of smoking or chewing tobacco products. And not so sure this “now” prolonged by giving up a pleasurable activity is worth the gamble of a future prolonged with even one less joy. Is joy a worthwhile life activity. I reflect that in the 1950′s American’s were besieged by a stop smoking campaign that used the then new television networks to extend it’s impact on America, Americans, and our lifestyles. Somehow was born the “public announcement’, media blitz for a “cause”.

Unfortunately the media bowed out of a controversy so expensive and far reaching in terms of harm, deaths, miscarriage, and birth defects. To this day most American’s do not know that the rise in lung cancer, and the resultant deaths, and the other health concerns mentioned were most likely caused by asbestos. A fine dust that when breathed in destroys throat and lung tissue. A fine dust that can genetically change an individuals DNA markers to be passed to their children.

A fine dust that infiltrates tissue, even that of the womb bearing a yet unborn child. The “now” imperative for me is not to expect my life to be shorted or lengthened by smoking or not smoking. The “now” imperative for me is to understand that “public service” announcements, health associations, the media, health providers, ad agencies, and even state governments have long enjoyed the profit of a lie so long told that it has become a truth.

The “now” for me is not an imperative of quitting smoking but of seeing quit in this America the need to punish those different. The “now” an imperative to see the food, drug, and health standards deregulated in the First Bush Dynasty, Presidency, reinstated in full force. The “now”is an imperative. For this now, this second, this minute, the deregulation of food, drug and health standards has seen the return of the drug “Valium” to prescription of Primary Care Physician.

Find out more at the Health Directory. Valium, a prescription drug, a tranquilizer, was pulled from the market as regular, even short term use can result in an addiction said that one can never overcome. The regular use of Valium causes fatal heart attacks in women. And permanent importance in men. The “now” an imperative for American’s to wake up from the tobacco wars and get back to the business of recognizing the “focus” the TV demands from us has blinded us to a reality. Smoking is not a grave danger, and the grave dangers need to be off the market now.