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I read Zhu Ziqing's essay "Talk about Smoking" last night, which talked about several benefits of smoking. I think that if you say it is a benefit, you are actually teasing smokers.

Smoking is indeed not a good thing, everyone knows it. Various media are promoting the harmful effects of smoking. Whether from a medical and health perspective, or from a social and psychological perspective, smoking has hundreds of harms and no benefits. So why do so many people still smoke?

There must be other reasons why so many people are still interested in smoking. In fact, if you think about it carefully, smoking is like taking a drug. Everyone knows that smoking is not good, but it is extremely addictive and you just can’t let it go. It’s like visiting a prostitute. Everyone knows that it is one of the five poisons, but you keep abstaining from it repeatedly. Prostitutes, raising prostitutes.

Smoking and visiting prostitutes are surprisingly consistent in many aspects.

First of all, smoking is not like drinking. Drinking a small amount of alcohol is good for your health, while smoking is harmful to your health.

Similarly, visiting a prostitute is not like making friends. Making close friends, even beauties, can add spice to life and eliminate loneliness. However, whoring is harmful to morality, health and family life, and does no good at all.

Everyone knows that smoking is harmful to the body, and tobacco companies also know it, so they hypocritically write "Smoking is harmful to health" on cigarette boxes. In fact, it is Jiang Taigong fishing - whoever wants to take the bait.

This is tantamount to hanging a sign at the door of a brothel that reads: "Whoring is detrimental to family harmony and carries the risk of infectious diseases. Please think carefully before stepping through the door."

< p>Smoking in the presence of others will cause others to inhale second-hand smoke and harm their bodies.

Going to prostitutes in the presence of others will result in others witnessing moral decay and harming others' souls.

Smoking is addictive. In view of the harmful effects of smoking on health, many smokers vow to gradually reduce the amount of cigarettes they smoke, smoking two packs today, one and a half packs tomorrow, one pack the day after tomorrow, and half a pack the day after tomorrow, until they finally quit completely. This is no different from the story of "stealing chickens" recorded in "Mencius: Teng Wen Gong": There was a man who stole the neighbor's chickens every day. Someone said to him: "This is not the behavior of a gentleman." He said : "Then reduce it and only steal one chicken per month until next year, and then stop stealing completely." If you know that stealing chickens is wrong, you should stop immediately. Why wait until next year?

Prostitution can also be addictive. In view of the harm that long-term prostitution can do to the body and family life, some prostitutes have vowed to gradually reduce this bad habit, first once a week, then once a month, then once every six months, until they quit completely. This is no different from smoking or smoking. If you want to quit bad habits, you have to do it cleanly and completely.

The old smoker always hides and avoids in front of his family, and rinses his mouth quickly before going home, for fear that his wife will smell the smell of smoke. When you get home, you have to hide the cigarettes tightly and be sure not to let your wife dig them out.

The same goes for raising a woman. She hides and wipes away the lipstick marks on her face and the smell of perfume on her neck before going home, for fear that her wife will see or smell it. After returning home, you should also hide things related to wild women to avoid unnecessary trouble. If possible, just build a house to keep her, so that she can be hidden even more tightly.

If you do not smoke in public, or if you only smoke in private spaces between individuals, it will not cause harm to others. Therefore, cigarettes can be bought casually in the market. Because of this, Westerners only restrict smoking in public places.

If you are still unmarried or do not have a girlfriend, visiting prostitutes will not cause psychological harm to others, so "sex" can also be bought on the black market. It is for this reason that although the Chinese crack down on pornography and illegal activities in public places, they allow secret prostitution to flourish.

It is said that smoking can bring two people closer together, and you can find something to talk about if you have nothing to say. When appropriate, the smoker can resist for a while: parents or wives ask if they are smoking outside. Well, there was a smoker who testified that he really didn’t smoke.

It is said that a prostitute and a prostitute have an unusually tacit relationship. If something happens, they will treat it as if it is nothing. At critical moments, the prostitute can also make up a call: the parent or wife will ask if he is a prostitute, or will he? A prostitute friend perjured himself - we were together and we did not engage in prostitution.

Cigarettes can be divided into high-end cigarettes and low-grade cigarettes. If you can't afford the high-end ones, you'll have to make do with the low-end ones.

Nowadays, the price of cigarettes is getting higher and higher, and the working class cannot afford high-end cigarettes at all. As a result, some people use public funds to buy cigarettes to give to those in power, and use public funds to treat guests.

Prostitutes are also divided into high-end prostitutes and low-end prostitutes. If you can't afford the high-end prostitutes who visit high-end apartments or high-end hotels, you just have to find low-end prostitutes on the street. Nowadays, the cultivation of prostitutes is getting higher and higher, and the prices are getting higher and higher. They can't afford high-end ones just by relying on their dead wages. As a result, there are also those who spend public funds on prostitutes, or use public funds to "treat guests", and even use public funds to travel to Europe, causing those foreign prostitutes with blond hair, blue eyes, and white skin to learn to use Chinese loudly to attract our compatriots: Chinese, have an invoice!

Smoking and visiting prostitutes have so many similarities that I simply don’t dare to think about it anymore.

I know that once this article is published, friends who smoke will definitely scold me, and I am mentally prepared to be scolded at any time. However, this article is really a joke and does not have any intention to slander the majority of smokers. In fact, I have smoked a few small puffs of smoke before. Although it is not a smoker, according to the above theory, I have "whored" after all.

Everyone who likes words seems to have something to do with smoking. Among the articles about smoking that I have come across, I think the most famous ones are "Talk about Smoking" by the literary giant Zhu Ziqing, as well as "Mood and Smoking" by Lin Qingxuan, the leader of the top ten prose writers in Taiwan, and "Eating Smoking" by Jia Pingwa . Perhaps this corresponds to the saying: Smoking produces articles, and wine produces poetry.

I am not a literati, but I have an indissoluble bond with cigarettes.

As early as one weekend when I was in my senior year of high school, a good roommate and I were the only ones in the dormitory who did not go home. The roommate mysteriously took out a small white square box: This is Wrigley cigarettes, have you ever smoked them? I, a farmer's boy, shook my head quickly. "Wrigley"? Not to mention that I have smoked it before, but even if I heard about it, this is the first time. My roommate generously handed me one and said, "I got this from my dad's office. This time I want to open my eyes and see what the smell of smoke is and what the feeling of a fairy is!" That day, I really did become a "god". Maybe it was my first time smoking, or maybe I smoked too fast. After a cigarette, I felt like the world was spinning. I couldn't vomit, and I couldn't stand firmly. Later, I couldn't attend evening self-study, so I had to lie on the bed obediently and "godlike" all night.

Out of school, smoking has become a common occurrence due to work. As time went by, I felt that smoking really had a bit of a "taste" to it.

The "taste" of smoking does not lie in elegance, but in that it has a good refreshing effect, just like people drink coffee or strong tea, but they have different preferences. People who like words can always capture a kind of creative inspiration while smoking. Late at night, sitting at the desk writing a short article, once you get stuck, you only need to take out a cigarette from the cigarette box or pipe, put the butt of the cigarette on the desk for a while (this makes the smoke more powerful), and then put it into your nose Next clamp, take a deep breath, it feels like a half-god. Take a short break, light it, take a deep breath, then close your eyes, lean back on the chair, and blow out strings of smoke rings very elegantly. Let what you see, hear, think, and imagine go through the smoke and fire, scrape off the roughness, inhale the essence, pass through the mouth, throat, trachea, and finally enter the lungs, where the blood and flesh are fused... The article is generally It is made in this way: spirit and fire, blood and flesh, accumulate, burn and release.

Another "taste" of smoking is that it can bring you endless comfort. Sometimes people are hard to get along with, but smokers are easy to get along with. You can choose, you can be picky, you can even get mad at her. She is your loyal companion and your loyal friend. Since ancient times, some people have loved the country and beautiful people, but I only love smoke. If it is small, it can entertain people; if it is big, it can predict the enemy's victory. Retreating can relieve sorrow and sorrow, and advancing can guide the country. Such a pleasant thing cannot be understood by people in the Tao.

Of course, if you smoke for a long time, you will naturally face opposition from your family. My wife said what are the benefits of smoking? Scientists have said that smoking a cigarette will shorten your life by several seconds. Since it is harmful to others and yourself, it is better to eat chewing gum!

I am too stupid to talk to my wife, so for a long time I was depressed because I didn’t have enough reasons to smoke! It wasn't until one day that I read Mr. Zhu Ziqing's "Talk about Smoking" that I became confident.

Zhu Ziqing said in the article: Some people say, "What are the benefits of smoking? It's better to eat some chewing gum. It's sweet, which is good." Needless to say, you know that this must be a layman.

Chewing gum may be good, but most of them are liked by women and children, and men rarely appreciate this kind of stuff, except in the United States, where there are probably some exceptions. You have to chew a piece of gum for a long time, and you can't hide that chewy look, which is always a bit indecent. It's not like smoking, but like holding an olive. Have you ever seen a person holding an olive in his mouth? There was a bulge on his cheek, and his mouth squirmed from time to time. Smoking doesn't have to be so strenuous; cigarettes are especially easy to smoke. Just pick them up and smoke them leisurely, without anyone paying attention to you. I can't tell you what smoking smells like; I can barely say it, maybe it's a bit bitter. But smokers don't care about the "bitter" but care about the "a little bit". His mouth is too stuffy, or too idle, so he just needs to join in the fun to make him feel that his mouth is still his. Chewing a piece of chewing gum is too much, too sweet and boring; and with sugar, you may forget "I". You see, Mr. Zhu has said so, what else is there to be afraid of?

I am not Castro of Cuba. He took the lead in quitting smoking for the benefit of the country and publicly bid farewell to the cigars that had been with him for 44 years. I am not Lee Kuan Yew, the former Prime Minister of Singapore. The country that smokes takes the initiative to quit smoking to set an example for all citizens; I am not... I am just an ordinary citizen, there is not so much pressure on me, I smoke just for a mood, a preference, and a freedom.

Isn't there a couplet like this in a temple in Hangzhou: "It's fate and luck, walk slowly; for fame or profit, just sit down and go." This couplet speaks volumes. How nice! In a "busy" life, what can ordinary people do when they sit down? Just sit down and smoke.