Dear friends,
Oh my! I really hope you don't believe that stuff in the other post, about what M A R L B O R O is supposed to mean! Smoking may look sophisticated, but in the long run it makes you far from that. Find a better way to be romantic and trendy instead of damaging your health, wrinkling your skin prematurely, turning your complexion greyish, and having smelly hair and smelly breath.
Do you really think a non-smoking woman enjoys kissing, or the smell of a man who smokes? I can tell you from real experience that they don't. I went out with a guy who smoked before my dear Ben finally found me! I was a non-smoker. It's just something we women who don't smoke put up with in the beginning. I imagine that the older you guys get, and the longer the marriage, and the greater the damage to you from your smoking, the less a woman can stand it.
A couple of years ago I wrote about one of our friends who had cancer in his face. Bit by bit they had to cut away his lower jaw, until he had no lower jaw at all. Can you imagine how romantic and trendy he looked? He used to go on television to try to tell people not to smoke in case something like that happened to them. He's dead now, of course, and his poor wife is alone. I imagine she must hate cigarette manufacturers.
Do you know how the cigarette manufacturers are being treated here now? There are class action suits brought against them by the families of all those sons andfathers and grandfathers and grandmothers and mothers who have died. And the suits are won. And the cigarette manufacturers have to pay out millions and millions of dollars in awards to those who lost their family members. I hope China makes laws that will allow that soon! Right now you are just being courted overthere because they are losing over here.
Thankfully my Ben doesn't smoke. I don't think I could have married him if he did. Imagine a life tied to a man with stinking breath and hair, and being madeto stink yourself. And having my health injured and that of our children, too, by his secondhand smoke!
In fact, I would be a very ill woman now with emphysema if I had smoked, or married a smoker. A lung specialist told me that.
The same goes for how non-smoking men feel towards women smokers. I know a lawyer here who decided not to marry a single parent woman from the far East, who loved him and would have had a happy and prosperous life with him. He was very fond of her, too, if not in love with her. The reason he decided not to marry her? He couldn't stand her smoking. She couldn't stop.
Smoking is said to be more addictive than heroin. Do you think it could have been designed to hook you? Wake up and smell the flowers!
It is a trap. Consider how that the joke about the Marlboro Man has helped you to remember the word "Marlboro". Consider well. Where do you think that joke may have come from? The latest in advertising is to plant thoughts by having hired people spread them among their friends and acquaintances. Others who overhear them think what they say is likely to be true. I think this joke could be a seeded thing, too. Subtle, eh?
That's the kind of thing we're up against today. And that's why we need to become mature people who can think for themselves. Make intelligent assemssments, and have the courage to follow our decisions. It pays off in the long -- that's certain!
Best wishes to you all, Mary
