Which Reminds Me

Ours is not a smoking family. Thus it confuses the picture to have all these belching chimney sweeps presuming to represent us. We actually have no idea who they are or how they got into that position or how they learned our names in the first place. We never socialize with pathetic tobacco trash so it is puzzling to consider where they got the idea that non-smokers would appreciate their devious plan to cross-pollinate smokers with non-smokers. How shortsighted is that? Do they imagine that we are so stupid that we would not foresee the potential fumes and home air pollution that would inevitably result, the eventual relaxation of no-smoking regulations, etc. etc. Sure, the smokers might eventually see the light and stop, but with tobacco dollars backing the whole scheme it is doubtful that end is in view for them. We are told to work hard but how can we get past the gang of smokers crowded just outside the front door when we always drew strength from being that one person who never took a puff from the cigarette passed around the girls' locker room after PE class. Ok, so maybe we missed some social details when by avoiding smokers but somehow I think not. There is a way that seems right at the outset but the end of it is death, as the Bible says. Tobacco dollars would have us believe it is the other way around but we know better.