Quitter Inc, By Stephen King

Many smokers, like Sload, take their first puffs in college. Other students experiment with cigarettes in high school but start smoking heavily in college. Everyone I surveyed and interviewed is aware that smoking was responsible for the deaths of many people every year. They know it increased the risk of heart attack and stroke and adversely affects breathing and the lungs. And like smokers of any age, many college students are actively trying to quit. Mandie Sload knows that for or five cigarettes a day were four or five too many. She plans to quit someday. She understands that if she quits her breath will smell better;

The evidence suggests that by smoking, Dick Morrison affects his family not only figuratively, but in a literal way as well.

He is the first person to record tobacco smoking, saying in his journal that “The two Christians met with many people on the road going home, men and women with a half-burnt weed in their hands, being the herbs they are accustomed to

'But even the unregenerate two percent never smoke again we guarantee it'" According to King, by constantly smoking one can go too far and meet death itself. Furthermore , what Morrison got himself into means that they will always be watching him. So if he makes the incorrect decision his loved ones will get punished and he himself will shake hands with the grim reaper. Meeting Donatti really changed Morrison's life, after his first treatment he knew what was in it for him.

John has not had any major illness until later in life when being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at the age of 62, and suffering skin cancer on the face and ear. Neuropathy also has plagued John he is not able to walk his usual two miles daily. John started smoking at a young age and continued for years, smoking three packs a day in his prime. He quit smoking off and on for several years, he is happy to say the last cigarette to touch his lips has been 16 years. When asking him what made him quit for the final time oddly enough it was not for health reasons. When businesses would not let patrons smoke in their establishments he said, “To hell with you, I will show you whose boss!” therefore, he quit. John’s father died when he was nine months old from a brain tumor, his mother at the ripe old age of 87, from complications due to diabetes and Alzheimer’s.

Smoking and cigarettes symbolize the obstacles that Morrison comes about facing to have a more appropriate life with his family. As the story expands he talks about the problems he holds having to do with his wife as well as the weigh he has gained. In the finale it shows that even since he quits smoking his relationship with his wife improved and his life becomes much more suitable.

The message quickly lets the viewer know that their habit cost more than just a few dollars and their personal health. It can also affect the health of people who have never smoked. This lack of empathy can stem, not from malice, but from

In "Quitters, Inc." from Stephen King, the story is about two guys who have life problems for the reason of drugs. The first obe which is Mr. McCann joins a group clled "Quitters, Inc." to get over drugs and invites his friend Morrison. Cigarettes symbolize life problems in life for the reason that is hard to quit smoking and affects others. It was hard for them to quit smoking that they had to join a group called "Quitters, Inc. " For example, life problems that Mr. McCann had was that he had problems with Sharon and his dad died from a heart attack.

Your wife gets the rabbit trick, not you” (King, 217). After receiving the motivation from Donatti, Morrison, who has been a smoker for years, was able to stop because, it would later protect his wife from getting electrocuted and getting “the rabbit trick”. Extra motivation like, parents giving their children

In “I’d Rather Smoke than Kiss,” the author Florence King expresses her disdain towards this new wave of hatred that has surged against smokers. King views these attacks on smokers as an outlet for Americans to demonstrate who they truly are without being judged. First of all, King labels all of those who hate smokers as “smokists” (Allyn and Bacon 315). Smokists hide behind this flourishing concept of “passive smoking” (315) in order to freely express their intolerance towards smokers without any obvious repercussions. Smokists do not care for what smokers might think they just seek their own well being, thus King views them as practitioners of a “sadistic brutality” (316). This group of misanthropes portrays smokers as uneducated and disgusting individuals that only inspire the vilest of emotions from the rest of the superior Americans. Therefore, many of the smokist’s campaigns only inspire that.

Selfishness is defined as the stinginess resulting from a concern of your own welfare and the disregard of others. Selfishness, once passing a certain level, is seen as a character flaw by many people. Where does selfishness come from? Is it a trait in which as humans we pick up over time, or is it an animalistic trait in which we are born with and have no control over? Author Mark Sundeen tells us the story of Daniel Suelo, in the book The Man Who Quit Money. Daniel Suelo was a mid-aged man, who decided to drop everything and live on his own without the use of money; he would no longer live the typical American lifestyle and survive strictly on the kindness of others and the leftovers he could find in dumpsters.

We know this statement and we see this in advertisements, in slogans, in posters and televisions everywhere and yet smoking still the leading cause of death in America. According to Centers for Communicable diseases, 2017, smoking is still the No. 1 cause of preventable death in the United States. It kills more people than infectious disease, abuse, firearms, obesity and traffic accidents. Some people do not believe that smoking is harmful to them. Some people do not notice the harm at first and by the time they notice the effects, they are addicted to it already. That is why the Word Health Organization calls it as “gradual killer”. Lastly, according to Sherry McKee, the director of Yale Behavioral Pharmacology Lab, “Most of the smokers think that they can just quit easily at any time and nearly all believe that they won’t be long-term smokers”. These are some of the knowledge gaps in tobacco use.

Every year, there are over 400,000 smoking-related deaths in the United States. A large percentage of these are due to lung cancer, whose leading cause is smoking. However, not all deaths are smokers themselves. Anyone in the vicinity can fall victim to second hand smoke. These people, through no action of their own, can have their lives threatened.

When you are a smoker you are making the decision to damage your own body, but little do you know you are also damaging everyone else's body that you are in the room with. John

Thesis Statement: Smoking has many dangerous effects on a smoker 's health and the health of those around them; it harms every organ in the body and leads to premature death.