Closing Down Marlboro Country

For ages, the mysterious chiseled chin man riding around Marlboro country and smoking his brains out has been a fervent standard for the rugged and manly. The Marlboro cowboy like many other celebrity figures associated with tobacco have help perpetuate and inherit the terrible vice of smoking. Movies show more men smoking or holding a pack of cigarettes than women in similar positions. Besides movies, television and advertisement (including product positioning in movies) have long allowed to relate strong desirable men with smoking and cigarettes.

Not only are cigarettes a part of today’s pop culture, but pipes, self-rolled tobacco and subsequent addictions to tobacco like marijuana. Having so many options to choose from, isn’t it somewhat expected and non-surprising that men smoke as much? Without intending smoking parents more often than not loose their moral grounds to stop a child from smoking. What authority do you have about the damaging effects of smoking on your child anyway if you are lighting your cigarettes one after the next?

Young men specially feel quite invincible and more often than not, they will take up on smoking out of revelry, spite and a need to fit in. As these new Marlboro recruits grow, they will discover how the addiction slowly takes over. Finally, the act of smoking is part of their meals, social gatherings and sexual acts. They can’t live without having a cigarette off their mouths.

Besides the already known effects of cigarettes as one of the main erectile dysfunction causes in men, there are other less health hazardous issues that harm a young man’s life all the same. Cigarette smoke becomes for regular smokers an impossible to perceive stench that disgusts those around them that do not smoke. The more you smoke, the stronger the smell of your hair, clothes and whatever touches the clothes you were wearing while smoking. Holding hands and kissing can become something your partner is disgusted at since it is cigarette what they taste and smell from their partner.

If things with smoking weren’t terrible already, male smokers are known to suffer from long lasting erectile dysfunction problems that affect their sex lives in more ways than not wanting to hold hands. Not being able to perform certainly demystifies that whole “smoking after sex” romanticized view on the dreaded habit. Though considered sexy by many, it is more about the relaxing effect smoking produces on smokers’ bodies that makes it irresistible.

Avid smokers easily claim their whole bodily functions would be affected by cold turkey action on smoking. From tension and stress, to bowel movements and focus, smoking seems to have more than a fair share of addicts thinking they can’ t live without the small, white magic wands.

But smoking has an even broader range of destruction and negativity. An unnecessary expense on itself already, male smokers find themselves constantly purchasing items that will help their breath, smell, erection and more to be disguised. Gum, candy or breath fresheners are accompanied by generic Viagra, body splashes and perfumes that help smokers pretend there is nothing wrong with what they are doing.

If you ask me, there is nothing worse than holding hands with a man who smokes; kisses are defenitely out of the question. No ashtray flavor in my mouth, please.

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