P. A. Chacko, S. J.
Be a friend of tobacco, guy! Be a hero! You have nothing to lose. Your gain is a choice of over 16,000 industry flavoured tobacco proucts.
You are honoured with a variety of over 1600 choices in the open market or online. The flavours include apple, cherry, chocolate, honey, grape, mint, menthol, peach, mango, strawberry, vanilla, coffee, and what have you.
You are blessed with choices that will include chewable tobacco, smokeable tobacco, drinkable tobacco, sniffable tobacco, injectable tobacco, smokeless tobacco, nasal tobacco, dissolving tobacco, moist snuff tobacco and the like.
They come in neat colourful packets and enchanting wrappers. They entice men, women and children who easily become users and addicts to tobacco nicotine.
This all brings you honourably to the hall of death. There again you have a variety of dishes waiting for your preferred choice. Instant death, slow death, double quick death, death by oral cancer, uterus cancer, liver cancer, bladder cancer, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, organ cancer, etc. You will be honoured to be one of those five million dying globally due to tobacco use.
So, if you prefer to enter the ‘Hall of Fame’, i. e. the ‘Hall of Death’, go ahead as a worthy candidate. You will reach the pinnacle soon.
Don’t worry. The law related to anti- drugs is a toothless and limping dog. It cannot catch up with you. If at all it bites you, it will be a harmless and toothless bite. So, be happy. Choose the path you prefer!