smokingdeathsEvery December 31st, huge crowds of people all around the world gather to welcome the New Year. They huddle together in barren public squares, exhausted and freezing, in the belief that if enough people do something unpleasant at the same time that makes it worthwhile.

I’ve never been tempted to join them. Why would I, when a neighborhood near my own home has a public year-end ritual more memorable, communal and weird than any other I know of?

I’m talking about New Year’s Eve at the Smoking Deaths billboard.

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  • Allan Abrams said:

    That's one way to get the message across of how bad tobacco is for your health. The only question now is how many will heed the warning and either quit or find safe alternatives before it's too late?

  • smoking timeline said:

    Smoking habit creates nasty illusions, indeed. Most smokers claim smoking helps them to clear their minds of worries or stress, inspire them with ideas, make them think clear, and so many other numerous reasons. I wonder how anyone can give a reason that cigarette help them to solve problems. How can anyone explain how so many discoveries, inventions, and great thoughts came into existence without smoking a cigarette? Do we need a magnifying lens to see a smoker is as good a problem solver, an inventor, researcher, manager as a smoker? The only difference is one thinks without smoking a cigarette and another strongly believes the smoking is the reason for his enhanced, if at all, ability to solve the problem at hand, for example. Why smoking is such a strong habit as to it can hamper ones reasoning faculty to reason that cigarette does not anyway create competitive edge over others excepting generating smoke, littering ash, and a health spoiler.

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  • Mary said:

    I never yet attended welcoming New Year's eve with huge crowds of people. I usually celebrate it with my family since that's the only time that we are all present since we have our own families. But I welcome the thought of attending a New Year's Eve musical or phyro concert.

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