Smoking

Smoking

P K Routray

Smoking is injurious to health

still many smoke in public, many in stealth.

The warning is statutorily written on its pack

still the wisdom to think over, the smokers lack.

Around twenty billion cigarettes are consumed in the world per day.

“Smoking relieves tension and the symbol of aristocracy” many feel and say.

Smoking in a group or sharing a cigar, comradeship they demonstrate

and tempting to intoxicate others with illusory benefits they illustrate.

To learn a wrong act, obnoxious trick and bad habit is much easier for youngsters

the smokers must rouse their wisdom and refrain from such acts of monsters.

For the health of the earth the crow is known to be a remover all sorts of dirt

here it is snatching the cigarette from man, symbolically asking man, smoking to desert.

Younger generation may swear to eradicate this evil habit from the globe

dissuading their parents, uncles, aunts and seniors who are with it badly in love.