I know several people that smoke: my dad, most of the people in my neighborhood, including the next door neighbors, and some of the staff at my workplace, including the executive director.

As often as they say about smoking have negative effects on health, and while my dad is sick quite a lot, the aforementioned next door neighbors always have a cigarette when they're outside, including to use their smartphones, not just to call all their friends, but to do Facebook and texts-and they're so healthy despite that.

I've had thoughts at times in the past about starting smoking, but I really don't intend to. Besides, my mom would be very angry if I did start.

One thing that really ticks me off is the news reports every so often that claim that there's less people smoking. WHERE are there less people smoking? I'm sure not seeing that to be true around my area.