Kick the butt!

Will pictorial warnings on tobacco products help quell the habit? This is one question that even my 'smoking' acquaintances are asking themselves. The suspense to the kind of graphic illustrations has certainly done the trick. While some of them are warily sticking to the butt, others are holding on to the old empty packets to fill them with new smoking arsenal. This, they say, would prevent them from looking at those graphics. Clever!

But this does not serve the purpose. It's hard to understand why would someone want to inhale some 4.7 thousand toxic substances at one go. And that too knowing that 85 % of the lung cancers are caused by smoking...and 80% of lung cancer victims die within 3 years.

Here's why one should not smoke.

• Try Isabgol for easy bowel movements...it's really effective.
• Go green...wait for CNG to cigarettes to hit the market. Traditional cigarettes emit 14-28 mg of carbon mono-oxide.
• What's the fun in wasting money on killing oneself? Use it for charity.
• Smoking causes bad breadth...so one has to spend extra on mouth freshener. Save money!
• A rotten fish smells better
• Smoking damages taste buds. So the next time...(u know what)
• Contrary to the general perception tobacco is a great turn off for the opposite sex.
• Smoking is not cool. Instead, one would be cooling off 6-feet under.