The smoker winces when he reads this kind of look into his future but it doesn’t stop him from smoking.
It didn’t stop you, did it?
And do you want to know why? Well, for one thing, part of your mind doesn’t believe it. Part of your mind thinks that smoking is just swell for you, that it makes you happier and healthier and nicer-looking and maybe even richer and stronger and more glamorous and this part of your mind flatly refuses to pay attention to anything in conflict with its beliefs.
WE KEEP DELAYING DIFFICULT DECISIONS
People will almost never exchange present discomfort for possible future comfort and there’s another reason for continuing to smoke. Why be nervous and tense today? Who cares about what happens twenty years from now? Heck, in ten years the bombs may fall and kill us all! Anyhow, you have to die of something. Why not have some fun today? All those were typical rebuttals of mine and here are some of the other points I used to tick off in my mind after something or someone had challenged my smoking:
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