Dearest Smoker,
It might cause you an immense amount
of pleasure to light up a cigar.
It might switch on all the desirable bulbs in your head.
It might help you think better, love
better, or even speak better.
It might get you a bucket full of
happiness over an ounce of ash.
It might curb all your food cravings
and facilitate you with dieting as well.
It might give you new friends, take you
to new places, and even promise you of new dreams.
But would you be alive to feel and do all that?
Would your lungs be able to take in all the burden of that?
You live as if there isn't tomorrow, but
what if there really isn't one?
With every cigar puff you take in you
are losing your vitality piece by piece
whether you like it or not.
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