from curiosity to nightmare

What we never talk about is its damages, what we pretend forgetting is the sorrows it brings about, but in fact the closest enemy to the people in the world is smoking!

Human Being has been struggling with various problems in order to survive from past to the present. Many people were killed by earthquakes when they were sleeping in the early hours of the morning, or many other were killed by the bombs at unexpected times. In spite of the measures, we can not protect ourselves from the natural events or we can not know when the terror will appear at the door! But we perfectly know that smoking is another reason that causes death of people. If you smoke, it is obvious that the risk of death becomes twice greater. In this case, what makes people kill themselves slowly? Who smokes? Children who want to look grown-up? Or people who want to act free? Is it a symbol of defiance?

I think most people begin to smoke due to these reasons. As it is known adolescence period is a very important time in people’s life. Adolescent can be affected from anything easily. They seem very curious and they want to be realized. They behave as the people they look up to. They wear the way as the people they admire. So they should be guided carefully and fastidiously by their family and teachers at that time. Otherwise, they may seem cool when they smoke but are they aware of the danger?

I think most smokers have some common attitudes. After being addicted, they become a little more selfish and they start to threat innocent people’s lives. They seem also wiseacre towards the people who want to help them. They always claim that people who dont smoke may die due to cancer or heart diseases. Yes that is true. But should we take care of the statistics or the exceptions when we take a desicion about our life?

As we live in a free world, forbidding something musn’t be a solution. Increasing the tax could be a good way to stop this addiction. However this tax should return to them as a health service for sure!


People can do anything they want. The only thing to do is to decide and then to believe yourself. We should never forget that our preferences and desicions take us to the places with flowers smelling beautiful or to the place with no taste and no smell.

To be or not to be depends on you!


2002 Awarded at Anti smoking youth festival Greece