No Tobacco Day

No Tobacco Day

P K Routray

Observe we today

across the globe as no tobacco day

to reiterate that every day should be a no tobacco day

and to stop tobacco smoking many things we show and say.

But we decorate our drawing rooms with many a fanciful ash tray

and seek to improve upon the flavor and the production in no uncertain way.

Offering cigarettes in fancy cases to guests is felt as a mark of aristocracy,

chain smoking openly and training the teen agers, we feel as our right under democracy.

“Smoking is injurious to health” is the statutory warning on each pack

Knowing the miseries of smoking, the wisdom to refrain from smoking we still lack.

To throw our fancy cigarette box and costly ash trays, let us promise today

Instead to kindle a psycho fear, a dilapidated lung may be the design of our ash tray

Let us promise to boycott the smokers socially and decelerate the tobacco production

our attempts should be, within a decade there should be  a ban on tobacco consumption.