See how they move like robots, bringing the little white sticks up to their mouths, sucking for a while, and then bringing the little white sticks away, occasionally flicking ash into a communal bowl or onto the floor, repeating the process again and again. Watch the smoke gushing out of their mouths and noses at regular intervals, each time in the same identical, repetitive manner. I can't help thinking that these robots are programmed to self-destruct, but anyway, we all know how horrible and dirty smoking is. Smoking is a 'current issue' that is never given the proper status of a 'current issue'.
Smoking is dangerous.
And if this were genuinely understood, then surely 'common sense' would drive people to stop. But I do not intend for this to be another lecture on the dangers of smoking, primarily because such remonstration doesn't work. We must take a more active, combative approach to make smokers appreciate the harm they are causing to us and, equally importantly, to themselves. Cigarettes are nasty, evil little things. They are addictive.