My Truth About Quitting Smoking (or the moral war on smoking)

A good "new year" topic:

Okay...I have quit. But, as I am sure is true of many quitters, I find myself inexplicably drawn back toward what I know is more than a bad (i.e., deadly) habit.

I wonder if I'm drawn back toward smoking by its shear social unacceptability.
Am I drawn to smoke because I am "not supposed to" smoke?
That would be so typical of my perpetual adolescence.

Anyway, in the midst of pondering this issue I accidentally ran up on a blog post (via a link from one blog to another...sorry I don't remember the original blog I was reading...I will see if I can find that post and offer credit).

Here is the found post:

From Corporate-Alien Blog by George Lunt http://corp-alien.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html

Second Hand Smoke, A New Perspective

The take-no-prisoners war on smoking has been raging for several years. Local governments don't want to ban cigarettes entirely because of the revenues gained from taxing them. They've banned smoking in indoor public places, now they're hitting the outdoors. I don't smoke, so the fate of cigarettes will not affect me. I am worried that, when they've taken the issue as far as they can, they'll need to find something else to ban. Coffee, maybe?

The current argument to make the environment smoke-free, is to tell us how dangerous second hand smoke is? Frankly, I don't buy it. Here's my article containing my observations concerning smoking.

(I would also recommend reading the article by Mr. Lunt)

What I have to say on the issue

Like Mr. Lunt, I wonder what is next. Let's see, in the past decade we have had (in no particular order):

• The moral war on porn
• The moral war on drugs
• The moral war on sex education (if not sex itself)
• The moral war on homosexuality (longer than a decade)
  [Hooray for my friends who have made this one into a fashion statement & tv marketable life style!]
• Friends don't let friends drive drunk
  (I personally have no problem with this one...you?)
• The moral war on works of art and other creative expression
  (with the exception of popular music...am I j/k?...no rhetoricalness, that is a real question)
• The war on the homeless
  (am positive this one makes absolutely no sense, we could have built housing for what we've spent on jails and mental wards...sheesh)
• And now...The Moral War on Smoking

I guess we...society, humans...need something to get our gussies up about.

Maybe I am subconsciously drawn back toward suicide-by-smoking as a weapon against the apathy I feel creeping over me.

The next question is: Does the apathy come with aging...or cause it?