great days to be remembered seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.
i do not have a roman holiday, but i have a non smoking day instead.
today a nc-smoking sign easily hooks up my interesting and rewarding experience on the world non smoking day a few years
as a high school student, i, together with my friends, volunteered on a campaign to discourage public smoking by persuacling people in public places to extinguish their cigarettes and put the cigarette ends into our metal boxes. and we would in return give them a memorial sticker bearing patterns and words voicing the theme of the non smoking day.
the first step is never a fast step. after hunting for quite a while, we set our target on a young man who was enjoying his cigarette at a bus stop. embracing the philosophy of nothing ventured, nothing gained, we summoned up all our courage,walked up and asked, sir, would you please not smoke in public places? it is none of your business! why are you so busily engaged in such things? go and mind your own exams! he was great, i believed, for he was able to drag on his cigarette while at the same time not giving his tongue a break. and i further found out that for this man, such words as good for your health or good for common courtesy had long lost their appeal. maybe such kind of situation should call for some other policy. i managed a smile, blended with sweet words and tried to dilute his resistance. and when we put the sticker on his clothes, he was lingering over the joy of having done us a big favor.
now you see, maybe flattery should be vindicated, for to please is a great step toward persuading and a smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
our work ran smoothly when things began easy to handle in the afternoon. but don't worry. troubles are just around the corner. the second hard rock we met was a middle aged man who appeared to be more of a smoking addict than a smokingenthusiast. nothing seemed to be capable of extinguishing that cigarette. even the wind seemed to be powerless. we showed him the cigarettes filled metal box. we spotlighted the hazards of public smoking. but all was in vain.
mark twain was right, habit is habit, not to be flung out of window by anyone, but to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time. i then tried to peel the stubborn onion one layer at a time.ok, i know how you feel. but do you know how other people around you feel? you see that child? actually he smokes more of your cigarette than you do! in fact, you are extinguishing one cell of lung cancer when you extinguish your cigarette. you are extinguishing one cell of the disease of selfishness when you extinguish your cigarette. it is that maybe that constant drops do wear the stone. at last he extinguished our words by extinguishing his cigarette.
as the sinking sun tinted the horizon, we began to count the cigarette ends, savoring our little victories.
that day saw me toiling for 6 hours, inviting loads of troubles, collecting 57 cigarette-ends,savoring hundreds of potential second hand smokers and developing for myself some sense of responsibility toward society.
though it was a little depressing to realize that those people would naturally pick up their tradition just where they had temporarily laid it down, yet how far can we estimate our actions would travel! and besides that, i was rewarded in another day.that is, the experience dawned upon me the significance of care and consideration for other people. since then, i have been as cooperative as possible whenever i am asked to improve my public behavior and i am always ready to get involved in such volunteer work.
in a sense, the highest reward for ones toil is not what they get from it but what they become by it.
everyone heard fans, the fans? you guess my dad? what is fan can not guess right, to tell you the truth, my father is out-and-out is smoke fan. school every day at home, i most common: father sat on the sofa content, whole room is badly messed up. dad ever since joined the smokers team, the body is not after as before, sallow complexion, teeth black and yellow, even that clip of smoke two fingers and huang, i really worry for fathers body. hence, i determined to help father to give up smoking.
in order to quit dads smoke, racking my brains, total came up with three his sleeve. hum! is afraid that he not quit. first i used a recruit: hidden smoke. one day, i got up early, while dad in bed, i think: smoke must in his pocket, i hand past touch, ha! cigerrat case, i gingerly took iv. dad move once, fine, just side body. im busy putting cigarettes hidden in my drawer, splat once locked. i think i failed in the right-hand! however, dad again the next day smoking cigarettes. originally, dad early psych out my mind, oneself conceals a box. cough! true take he couldnt.
opinion, dont give him a severe look is washed-up. then, i use the second recruit: hidden lighter. one day, my conveniently the lighter on the table and began to play computer. i take a book on the table, shunshouqianyang, suddenly picked up the lighter, and turned to run downstairs. i throw, the lighter sent into the dustbin. i think this can work in cooking, but my father arrived inspiration, putting cigarettes to jam the gas stove lighted, and drew up. alas! it really let me wry smile not.
opinion, dad difficult, i have to use my killer -- three recruit: sign a contract! i on paper wrote: dad, to you and your familys health, please stop smoking! i also brought out the following requirements: 1. want to smoke when sugary fast. two. the smoke all over, if, in violation of the regulations, all the housework by dad contracting. dad took a look, truly the helpless under signed. and say to me: good boy, with housework against me, admire you, my father and i happen to coincide the ground smiled. ho! dont say, a coup indeed as expected work. from then on, the father and his old - smoke bye-bye! our environmental protection question is completely solved.
hey hey! dad, i quit smoking spun-he!
every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking.
one in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. half of these deaths will occur in middle age.
tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers.
the mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels.
this can cause heart attacks and stroke. it slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. some smokers end up having their limbs
amputated.
tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. a 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.
changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.
carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart work harder. over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.
smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. the strain put on your body by smoking often causes years of suffering. emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. people with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.
lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.
heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers.
smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack.
smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease.
in younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking
please quip smoking for the sake of your health!
