Lucky Burn by Ray Cates

Puffs to Death — Cigarettes

ballotsforkids — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:38:27 +0000

I am now age 68 and all my life I have seen the rise and fall of the cigarette business. In the 1940′s every adult seemed to smoke, both my mother and father puffed on cigarettes. We often went to church meetings and all the adults were just enveloped in smoke. Rooms were typically filled with smoke, and it was sort of something you got to do when you grow up.

Of course I smoked corn silk when I was a little kid, and burned my throat, so I quit lighting up right then.

I got secondary smoke when I did marriage counseling for quite a few years. People came to me under great stress, and always asked, “Do you mind if I smoke?” Well I always let them chain smoke in my little office. It was unpleasant, but they were paying me by the half hour. I’m sure that was bad on my lungs.

When I was in the Navy packs of cigarettes were put on my meal tray. I think the government at all levels is complicit in the addiction of people in our society. And they extract taxes for every pack sold.

I have a blog about cigarettes and it is called ‘Puffs to Death –Cigarettes. It can be found at:

http://www.zimbio.com/Puffs+to+Death+cigarettes

Lucky Burn

ballotsforkids — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:15:59 +0000

Cigarettes

I tried them at ten

Expensive at ten

When I was ten

The cost was ten

Cents

For a few cigs

I found corn silk

Slick

News paper wrapped

I sucked that smoke

Down

Inhaled

In nineteen fifty

I hid and puffed

Cost me nothing

Big old wrap in

Newsprint

Fat puff

Worked fine

Till

I pulled it hard

And flame

Burned

Down

Way down my

Throat

Ouch

Yikes

Wow

The hurt

But I

Never never

Lit one again

Not speaking

Right

For two weeks

Fire makes

Bad habits

Burn out.

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