A couple of years back in a seminar, I was asked: “What would you do if you have a power of a president or king?” I answered: “I’ll eradicate smoking from this world !!!” Why on earth this cigarrette thingy was created in the first place, I thought??!!! Only people who don’t care about themselves and the people around them will smoke, and to me, they are, forgive me, simply pathetic. Even worse people who smoke inside air-con room, they are, again forgive me, moron to say the least !!! Don’t get me wrong, a lot of people realized that smoking is bad for health, but just powerless to stop smoking. I’m also not implying that I’m better than these people in other cases, it’s just me, who hate smoke so much, and to be clear, I hate their smoking, and not the people. If people smoke around me, I’ll make sure they know I don’t like them, most of the time, simply by moving further. A couple of times though, in an air-con restaurant, once in Swiss, countless times in Jakarta, (never in Singapore, since it’s not allowed to smoke inside air-con room), if there are people smoking inside air-con restaurant, I’ll call the waiter to ask them to stop. It may not always work, but at least I tried. Of course, everytime I did this, I’ll be scolded by my parents. 
So, when Singapore announced that they will ban smoking from hawker centres, coffee shops, bus shelters, entertainment areas, etc, I received that news with jumping joy. A very positive move, and I wish Indonesian government will take this example and ban them in Indonesia too, though maybe that will only happen in another five, ten years?
I have an uncle in far far away from here who used to smoke, but when his son fell very sick, doctor said that his son inhalled too much smoke from him, and immediately that month, he stopped smoking for the sake of his son. See, you can stop, you just need to find that Power to conquer your desire to smoke. So, if you smoke, please do stop, I know it’s not easy, but put effort into it, for the sake of people around you and yourself. You are lucky that I am not God, hehehe… coz else, I will strike you with lightning long time ago already, but you should be grateful that God is STILL good to you. (Note that STILL, coz if you have not repent until your last second on earth, you will never have a chance anymore, FOREVER in hell)
To end this, I’ll make this clear, I hate smoking, and I hate people when they are smoking. No tolerance, no hesitation. I don’t understand why people smoke, and I don’t care why, as I don’t see what good can smoke give to a person. Simple as that.
