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July 25, 2006

Table for SmOkeRs

Each morning, I have breakfast before coming into the office. With the allocation of very limited tables for smokers, I'm glad my morning begins early. After going through one cup of very good coffee, the place started filling up and naturally, table space became limited. One bespectacled chinese man walked up to the table next to mine, pointed to the SMOKING SIGN, and asked the man seated there, why he was smoking. He was lucky, the man simply replied, this is a table for smokers.

This man is a non-smoker, therefore, I would imagine that his brain cells are functioning perfectly - so why couldn't he read signs?

If he's so concerned about quality of air, perhaps he should walk around in an oxygen tent. Our air quality is already bad with pollution from cars, air-conditioning units and incineration, that's not including the industrial contribution to the environment!
People die and it's not always because of tar and nicotine. He's lucky he didn't come to the table I was at, because I would have said things to make him want to shove his head into his ass - do a new style kamasutra so that he wouldn't be so edgy.
We are all temporarily here - whichever way we die, would depend very much on how compassionate we have lived our lives. It's so cliche, if he gets cancer, he'll blame the smokers, without thinking for a moment that he could have been born with a dysfunctional gene that manufactures a dysfunctional cell.
Today, everyone blames the ciggie for illness - tomorrow, they should ban drinking as well. Perhaps we should just make everyone walk to work, use bicycles and stop the sale of air-conditioning units. We should also stop cutting down trees to build houses/shopping complexes, because they are all bad for the environment. But it will never happen because, these people only react if it means a chance of extending their own life - if the danger is shared amongst the community, it makes it less urgent - the fumes from the incinerator probably chokes the environment more than a few smokers puffing at one go - but the incinerator has not been shut down.
Let's see how these people will handle death, perhaps, they may just try a wager with the devil when their time is up.

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