Have you a light, man?

“A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”

( http://thinkexist.com/quotation/a_cigarette_is_the_perfect_type_of_a_perfect/326682.html)

" Lung cancer is directly related to smoking. Over 40 carcinogens have been identified in cigarette smoke"
(http://www.chestx-ray.com/smoke/smoke.html)

Last week, our Being Bad lesson was about smoking. Nowadays, in spite of the fact that everybody knows that smoking is bad for our health, some people continue to do it. Is it only due to the additive effects of nicotine or do people really want be bad with themselves when they smoke?

This lesson helps some understand the role that smoking has on history. We can also discover that tobacco has not always had the bad image that it has today. Moreover, smoking is probably one of the most ancient and universal vices of humanity. We can find smokers in many cultures, from the American Indians to the Chinese. We can find them also in every stage of our history.

As we have seen in the lecture, smoking can be associated to religious issues, like in tribal societies. It can be related to politics (we can mention the indian's “pipe of peace”). In addition, we can find smoking associated to the most sexy actresses of Hollywood, the cowboy's freedom in the countryside or the secret agent in the city. In this sense, I found an interesting website (http://scenesmoking.com/) that makes a kind of list of films saying the way in which they use the smoking issues.

Smoking has ways been related to positive issues. Even cigarrettes can be seen as reivindicative in a women's mouth, as something that fights for the end of patriarchal society or it can also mean rebellion in a man that wants to rebell against the stablished order. We see different possitive connotations aimed to some smokers with the idea of being bad, even when this means goes against their own health. Nevertheless, we can choose between our health or being bad. Personally, I prefer my heatlh (I am not bad in this aspect) but I believe that some people prefer to be bad with their deligtfull cigarrette betwen their lips.

PS-The alarm fire sounded during the class...was anyone being very bad smoking in a forbidden place? Hehehehe.