| The past week I have seen two fatal accidents along | | | | you." Imagine all you have to do is make the choice to |
| the route 9 corridor heading towards Brattleboro, | | | | smoke and you can have a smorgasbord of options |
| Vermont. Both could have been avoided if the drivers | | | | to simply die for. What's on the menu today - lung |
| had not made bad decisions. | | | | cancer, kidney cancer, or maybe a dash of Ischemic |
| The first accident involved a left turn and the second | | | | heart disease? |
| accident involved a right turn. What did both drivers | | | | Or better yet, you can pick from a grab bag of |
| have in common? They both risked their lives and the | | | | assorted illnesses! How about acute necrotizing |
| lives of others by making a turn in front of speeding | | | | ulcerative gingivitis in twenty years, peripheral vascular |
| traffic. They both probably thought that they could | | | | disease in thirty years, or pneumonia next winter? |
| beat the odds of dying, and they both failed miserably. | | | | Rest assured that smoking is a very disturbing |
| Viewing the aftermath of crushed metal horrifically | | | | addiction. Though the act of smoking does not veer to |
| flattened upon impact, is a painful and disturbing sight to | | | | the left or to the right, it does remain steady. Day after |
| see. The vehicles that had hosted life just moments | | | | day, year after year - the smoker lights cigarettes |
| before, now laid to rest as a testament that the | | | | laced with radioactive ingredients and garnished with |
| stupidity of human choice can indeed kill you. | | | | pesticides. Logically speaking self preservation alone |
| ASH (Action on Smoking & Health) states that | | | | should dictate absconding to higher ground...Perhaps |
| "smoking has more than 50 ways of making life a | | | | smoking is a form of self-harming disease? |
| misery through illness and more than 20 ways of killing | | | | |