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AN EASY WAY…TO DIE
BY A.KHALDI

Stinky gray clouds surround you, waiting for a chance to get through your defences, and when they have it, they’ll destroy you completely in hideous ways starting with the chest, the brain, the liver, and each part of your body. Wait a second, don’t be afraid, it‘s not a horror movie, it’s a small white thing facing us wherever we go .

According to the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) official counts there are:
- 6.5 billion persons living on earth .
- 1.15 billion person are smoking .
- 400 million of them are from Homeland .

Well, it’s obvious that smoking dangers are fatal and more than you can count, Cancer, Liver cirrhosis, bad headache, not to mention the painful cough all day long and we’re talking about smokers those who actually smoke, a passive smoker is a person who doesn’t smoke but who sits with smokers. The damage this time has awful results, just consider that every six hours you spend with a smoker, you would have smoked one cigarette .

Actully, there are two main steps which should be taken to stop such killing habits, firstly, smoking must be baned in all public places like schools, hospitals, services etc…and the one who breaks the rules must spend a day or more in a special prison and pay a fine as a warning, secondly, smoking dangers could be advertised on TV or in newspapers and every media means, so smokers may quit or at least cut down, specially the young, who are most at risk nowadays.

Lastly, to conclude, you should take care from now on, becouse those people are everywhere, your friends, your relatives and even your teachers ! and if you are one of them, so you know the truth, and the ball in your court, and it’s your choice, kick this bad habit now or you might (GOD forbid !) kick the bucket in a few years .

Abdullatif Khaldi
12/5/2002