****** Muhammad Janabi ****** ( ARTICLE OF THE DAY ) ****** The crap about passive smoking A man who used to be the lead singer of a group that got to the top of the Britiish charts a number of times - Terry Hall of The Specials - is an unrepentant smoker and here he speaks out against the vociferous majority that are calling for a ban on smoking in all public areas: I think you should be able to smoke everywhere in: in swimming pools, on the tube, in restaurants... Why cant you smoke over peoples salads? Its fantastic. If a non-smoking friend objected to me smoking, itd be, like, do they really want to be my friend? I might have to put up with things they say or the way they eat. Whats passive smoking? Theres passive lots of things. Like passive listening to shitheads. I have to put up with that every day. Are you going to ban people from talking crap? They give me a headache. Believe me, theyre killing me. One day peoples conversations on the street will do me in. I started smoking when I was 12. Nobody told me not to. Maybe I wouldnt be doing it now if Id known the risks. Ive tried smoking herbal cigarettes but they made me feel sick. My wife has never had a cigarette, but she knows that if I stop I turn into some kind of horrible monster. I also get eczema all over my hands. My wife bothers about breath smells, which is OK, but it doesnt worry me. Ive got a huge bottle of breath freshener that gives me ulcers. But if yourre really worried, eat mints or dont talk to anybody. Last Christmas I went to see my dad and he looked really ill. He was a heavy smoker - both my parents were - and the doctors said it was lung cancer and that he only had a month left. After a couple of weeks they let him home for a bit. Id been on this new man thing and arrived with orange juice and grapes and all these leaflets. I walked in and he had a fag and a bottle of brandy. It was just like: Forget it. He told me smoking had taken eight years off his life, but he didnt miss them because he was happy with the 71 hed had. Its a good way of looking at things. He died in May. If anything will make you stop smoking its seeing all these lung cancer patients in the hospital ward. Its a terrible sight, but it didnt make me stop. So I thought: OK, this is what Im gonna do. It was the first time Id seen anyone die, and I know I could get the same thing. Its a weird religious thing when youre holding someones hand and they pass away. Because of that, its made me strong about living in a positive way. You can try to be somebody else but its a lie. I smoke - thats the kind of person I am. I think you should look in the mirror every day and say, Hey, I like me just the way I am.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 12:07:52 +0000
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