smokes

you read
someplace, such
as in the new
england
journal of
medicine that
over six hundred
thousand
people die
in this country
alone each and
every year,
as a direct
result of
cigarette smoking
and you can't
help but wonder
what if milk
did that, or
bread, or
apples, would
they still be on
the market. what
if terrorism
did that? am
i missing
something here?
and you get it.
taxes and money,
jobs, free will,
and our own
basic human rights
to do as we
please, to kill
ourselves slowly
through whatever
addictions that
please us and
yet something is
wrong with
this picture, or
so it seems.