smoking is bad for more reasons

i've seen recently, and not to be sexest, but women smoking in cars with children in the vehicle... obviously this was acceptable at one time... but common it's been known for years that smoking is not a healthy habbit... do you really need to subject small children to the harmful affects of smoking and second hand smoke? not to mention the idea that the kids probably don't enjoy it either... i remember when i was a kid being in a car with older people and smoking would occur.... i would tuck my head inside my shirt for about 10 mins... i remember the window wasn't even cracked even a little bit...

it's amazing that the addiction is so powerful that it makes you forget about the well being of your children and "gee i haven't had a smoke in almost 20 mins and i can't wait another 5 mins till when the car is stopped because we're behind and i can handle standing outside in the sun for 5 mins so i'll just lite up and my kids won't remember to morrow why they need a puffer" i look at it as more selfish than anything but at the same time i know that although i wasn't like that.. and i don't have kids .... i would never smoke in a car with kids or in front of kids for that matter... i understand that it is a powerfull addiction and can control a persons mind more than the addict realizes... rational thinking isn't exactly first hand.... i have a 15 mins break so i can smoke 2 smokes... that makes no sence.... i won't have a chance to smoke for 3 hours or 5 hours for that matter... so i better smoke for the next half hour....

anyone who want's to quit smoking take it from me... it's a long process... i don't count the days... but it was the first of feb last time i had a smoke and i still have some major cravings... but they pass... i've had some bigger cravings lately than i had in the first 3 days... and actually bigger than the whole time.... i call it evil because i think it's the way it thinks... the addiction is like the devil... he's just waiting till i think i'm in the clear... but i know that in the back of my mind i'll never be in the clear...

on another note... i have a theory... and i talked about it once to someone... of course he argued... but that's his nature... here it is...

i think that because of tolerance for people who smoke and allowing kids to be around those people and then say smoking is bad, don't ever do it, that has got to implant a seed in the mind.... why is it ok for that person to smoke and not me? what's the big deal about smoking... maybe i should try it to see... i wonder if my mom and my father letting me be in the room with aunts and uncles smoking had some effect on me smoking... i wonder if themselves smoking had some effect on me smoking... i wonder if my friends kids who have and will have been around smokers will turn out to be smokers or at least try it... my theory is that acceptance and toleration is a big factor in the outcome of who's a smoker and who isn't...