Mentioning that if you're unlucky you can have an instant heart attack or develop serious psychological illness is enough to give a lot of young people some pause. Mentioning that you will commit insufferable acts of bad poetry and the person you lust after will hear them and remember them is a solid deterrent. Mentioning that you will not remember any of your weekend until the tragic photographic evidence emerges on Facebook? Serious pause.
I tell my patients every day that one lone cigarette a day triples the risk of heart attack or stroke, and they look at me with disdain. Then I tell them that every single puff, on a cigarette, joint, or crack pipe (I work in a jail), sucks burning hot gasses into the lungs and BURNS HOLES into the tissue, which holes DO NOT GROW BACK — and they look at me in horror. I am astounded that in 2008, no one has ever told them this before. I may single-handedly destroy the tobacco market in the lower socio-economic strata of my county. I dearly hope so.
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Date: 2008-06-29 11:28 pm (UTC)I tell my patients every day that one lone cigarette a day triples the risk of heart attack or stroke, and they look at me with disdain. Then I tell them that every single puff, on a cigarette, joint, or crack pipe (I work in a jail), sucks burning hot gasses into the lungs and BURNS HOLES into the tissue, which holes DO NOT GROW BACK — and they look at me in horror. I am astounded that in 2008, no one has ever told them this before. I may single-handedly destroy the tobacco market in the lower socio-economic strata of my county. I dearly hope so.