I Resign

Dear Tobacco Companies,

I RESIGN. It's just impossible to get rid of you! First off, I absolutely cannot stand the smell of any of your nasty products. Vacations in Reno, Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, and even Nicaragua have been ruined by the smell of cigarette smoke polluting hotels (particularlythe ones with casinos...), parties, streets, homes...everything! I literally can't go ONE DAY without inhaling your rat poison mix, which is especially harmful to me since smoke is one of my asthma triggers! Did I mention that I never had asthma until I started living with my dad, who is almost a pack-a-day smoker? Whenever he lights up, I have to plug my nose and get as far away from him as I can, offending him and annoying me in the process. My dad's entire home smells like cigarette...it's inescapable. My room, my bed, my pillows, and my clothes stink, no matter how much Febreze or Lysol I spray or how many candles I light. I even keep my door shut and windows wide open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. He doesn't even smoke indoors, and yet the smoke still follows him in and infiltrates EVERYTHING. You know what else bugs me? How you present smoking to people my age so young - your future generation. It's gross, but it's also how you got my dad to start smoking at 18. People insist that nicotine calms them down, when, in reality, it is a stimulant, and, from experience from my dad, makes people extremely IRRITABLE and mean when they can't have any. You should be smart enough to know that promoting these lies is ridiculous because there are healthier ways of relieving stress. Do you want YOUR kids smoking and preparing themselves for some nasty form of cancer that will eventually kill them? You know cigarettes do this, and yet you keep pushing them at people for your own selfish interests. What kind of people even work for tobacco companies!? It's the equivalent of working in a grocery store, poisoning products you know people will by, then watching everyone die as a result. Doesn't that kind of sound like a murder plot...? I have already lost my grandpa as a result of your filthy products, and it scares me to know that my grandma and dad could potentially be on the same path. An article I read stated that every cigarette smoked takes five minutes off a person's life...can you imagine all the years I won't get with my dad BECAUSE of your products? You're letting people commit a slow suicide and telling them it is okay and acceptable, but it's not. I have to stress every single day not only about my health, but also about my dad's. I hate you and your products and wish everything about you would be outlawed.