External Effects

Contrary to the numerous advertisments and ploys used by the Tobacco Companies to coax people into using tobacco products, tobacco use is neither glamourous nor sexy. The actual truth behind it is that tobacco use can promote aging, halitosis(BAD BREATH), yellowing of the skin, and teeth, strip the hair of it's nutrients and make your hair smell, stunt growth, and leave a person succeptable to numerous diseases by decreasing a person's immunity. So, as you can tell, tobacco has a much deeper effect than that of attacking your internal organs, but it attempts to deface your appearance and style. When you smoke over a long period of time the major thing that happens is that your aging speeds up, making you look totally nasty in about half the time. Pretty soon your buddies from high school are looking fiftish and "distinguished" and you are sucking air a fast as possible and people are just waiting for you to fall over. The oxygen truck is making a weekly stop at your house and the kids in the neighborhood think you're some kind of weird government experiment gone horribly wrong (or right but that's a whole other can of worms).

So one day your best friend calls up and he's like, "Hey happy 50th birthday bud!" and you answer, "*cough-cough-hack* Hey Buddy! *wheeze*"
"Yeah so buddy, I was going to ask you if you wanted to do something?"
"Sure*wheeze-hack*, but you gotta pick me up, I *hackhack* can't drive."
"Can't drive? I thought you loved driving."
"I can't *coughcough* drive anymore. I *wheezehack* cough too much to *hack* concentrate."
"Okay, sure. I'll be right over."
"What do you drive *COUGH* these *HACK* days?"
"A classic Fiat Spider, 1974, its cool."
"Oh *hack* no. I can't get my oxygen *coughcoughcough* tank in that thing, what else *hack* you got?"
"Sorry, my wife's on a business trip, she drove the car. Didn't you marry Jane from high school? i remember you two were always smoking together."
"I did. *hackhackhack* She died of Lung Cancer two years ago.
"Oh, I so sorry. Actually though it looks like the logistics aren't working out. Sorry, bud."
"Oh, *hack* it's alright *wheezewheeze*. Bye."
"later. *click* See what I mean? Smoking will get you later if not today. I know that was a pretty extreme case there, but its not as far of base as you might think. I know gobs of older people who smoked and still do. One, my grandfather, was told by the government doctors to start smoking so he would cough and get the shrapnel out of his lungs. Today, fifty years later, he's dead from lung cancer. At the end he was basically choking to death slowly, he just couldn't breathe. You just have to...