They plays and old movie on the TV. A Marlene Dietrich movie.

Do you remember her?

She was a great symbol of femininity. She was that kind of woman every women would like to be, every men would like to have.
She was beautiful, she was distinguished, she was a "femme fatale".

Her amazing eyes masked behind the veil of smoke was heart killers! How many men would be damned themselves to kiss her lips? When she was smoking she was so hot, so sexy, so desirable... Her cigarette raucous voice gave shivers...

It was a time when smoking was normal. Better still, smoking was the "way to be". It was hype, it was fashion, it was hot and sexy, it was glam!

...

And now in 2008. How is it? It's still glamorous being a smoker?
Certainly not. Being a smoker start to be a real nightmare.

Every single day we can hear than smoking kills, than smoking is highly bad for the health, than the smokers will die in abominable sufferings...

So after all those years where we had no informations about the smoking dangers, after all those years when the tobacco's manufacturers hid all the chemicals which they put in the cigarettes to makes smokers more addicts.

What kind of solutions our governments give to the smokers? (I have to say, it's about the same in France and in the U.S.A)
Are they forcing tobacco's manufacturers to re-invest their benefits in "how to stop smoking research"? Are they giving smokers really effective medicals solutions?

To my knowledge, absolutely not.

The only solution I know they give at this time is "the smokers hunt", "the smokers discrimination".

Now, after having been glamorous, the smokers are bad, they are guilty. They are guilty to smoke and smoke out the nonsmokers.
Now it's forbidden to smoke everywhere, now it's start to be better being caviar addict than being a smoker.

Why they don't really help the smokers?
Imagine, that tomorrow all the smokers stop smoking, stop buying cigarettes... Where our governments will take the money they have right now with cigarettes taxes?

They will not help the smokers because they will lose billion.

You know that if I talk about that, it's because I'm a smoker... for years... 24 years exactly.
I'm not a bad person. I would like to stop. But... I can't. I already tried and I'll try again...

Just don't forget, smokers are not criminals, smokers are not bad and most of them wants to stop.