[Dion]

Now, anti-smoking lobbyists are jumping in the air claiming this to be a huge victory for them. But officials from the tobacco companies, rather than run around trying to fight this, are sitting with their arms crossed, as if asking "so what?" According to the Canadian Press, they claim this new campaign won't do much to deter people from smoking as the greater public already knows the harms of smoking.

Call them what you want, but smokers are resolved, stubborn, and yes, maybe even stupid; but you can't stop them with an ugly picture or two of a collapsed lung. In the same way that some alcoholics exist according to the rules of Jimmy Tomorrow's "Tomorrow Movement" (i.e. I'll do it tomorrow, I'll sober up tomorrow, I'll go to work tomorrow; just one more drink) in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, some smokers exist according to the regulations of the "It Won't Happen to Me Movement," which convinces them that they will be the exception to the rule; they won't get cancer, they won't get infected, they'll be the one at the party saying he got more out of cigarettes than cigarettes got out of him. But then again, this trait isn't exclusive to only smokers, but also to every rational human being who doesn't want to face facts.

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