Are You a Smoker or Non-Smoker?

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Virginia, which is where I live, is still a huge producer of tobacco products, mainly cigarettes, and there are still many tobacco plants here. Sometimes you can actually smell the tobacco odor that fills the air around Richmond, the capital. Kentucky also produces a lot of tobacco products. The amount is in the 400 millions of pounds range, I understand. However, since all the “bad” news about the dangers of smoking and chewing tobacco has been brought to everyone’s attention, some tobacco farmers have decided to grow something else on their land. Whether a person chooses to smoke or not smoke is a personal decision, of course, but now there are few public buildings where smoking is still allowed by law. The debate rages on about “rights to smoke” as everyone knows, but the story that made me really sit up and take notice was about a young man who had NEVER smoked himself, but who had grown up with parents who both smoked in the house and in the car. He died of lung cancer when he was just in his twenties. He lived near me. My husband nor I smoke any kind of tobacco or other product, and neither do any of my children. I have ONE grandson who smokes cigarettes and possibly other products. He is in his thirties and has frequent health problems. I know it’s an ongoing debate, but what do you think? Picture by Pixabay