Rambling Judgement on Smoking (Ignore If You Wish)

I had to post a rambling just because it is something that really strikes me to my core. I know I am being very judgmental and I apologize but I hope that someone who reads this will get the urge to stop smoking.

I grew up in a smoking household: smoking parents/grandparents/aunts/uncles. Essentially everyone was a smoker. The ironic thing is that neither I nor my 2 older sisters turned into smokers. This morning, as I did my 4 little laps around the track, I could smell the faint odor of cigarette smoke.

During my morning walk, I share the track with soldiers who are either doing PT or doing a morning formation. No doubt the cigarette smoke was coming from some of the soldiers waiting to form up for PT. In this day and age with all the bad news there is about smoking, why would someone choose to smoke? The cost alone is insane! It makes you smell bad, your clothes smell bad, kills your tastebuds, and it is wrecking havoc on your insides. Lung cancer, COPD, pneumonia, emphysema, heart problems, vascular problems, premature death...I could go on and on about what smoking will do to you.

I know...if you are a smoker it's the same old "no one's gonna tell me what to do"! Seriously, there are people around you who care about you and would like you to be healthy and live a long life. A life cut short by smoking could have been prevented which makes it all the more tragic for the people left in its wake.

As someone who has personally witnessed what years of smoking does to a person (the premature death of my mother and chronic sickness of my father), I challenge YOU....stop today, no excuse, do it for your family, do it for yourself.