CIGARETTE: A roll of paper with fire on one end and a FOOL on the other....
On this Anti Tobacco day 2011, suddenly everyone except the smokers themselves was talking about quitting. A radio channel 104.8 FM went even further and invited listeners to leave messages to get Shahrukh Khan to quit smoking...bhai uski cigarette, uski marzi...and infact why persuade just him to quit, there are other actors who smoke..why don't you take messages for them as well..
What is the use of someone telling someone else to quit. I have a senior in office, very hardworking, and he has been blessed with a daughter some months back. But he needs breaks every couple of hours to go out to the shops just outside the office to smoke. Now he is educated, no doubt knows about the ill effect of smoking...I don't think he needs someone else to tell him smoking is bad before he quits.
Yes, you can tell about the ill effects of smoking to people who aren't educated, but since the tobacco lobby is so powerful in India, the plan to introduce pictorial warning is yet to see the light of the day after i guess 3 postponements. The next date is 1st December. Lets see what the next date after that is...
I feel that it is up to the smoker to realize how they are harming themselves and their families with their smoking...Nobody can do that for them.
