Yesterday's parade showed that people here had many family members who were important to them. This letter illustrates how cigarettes will take your priorities away from your loved ones in order to sustain smoking. Every one of you that participated yesterday, as well as those of you who did not should recognize that smoking was risking your long-term relationship with every family member and friend you have on three fronts.

First, as this letter shows, by making your desire to be with them secondary to your to need to feed your addiction. Next, by shortening your time of being alive you are going to be taken away from them prematurely.

Third, you were affecting your health and endurance and eventually, even those times when you are in their presence, it may have been as an observer as opposed to an active participant, witnessing life on the side lines as opposed to being an active participant.

Whenever the thought of a cigarette occurs consider everyone and everything that you will be leaving behind. Now what is more important, your hopes of a momentary pleasure from a drug fix or your ability to share your lifetime with your loved ones? If the answer is the latter always remember to never take another puff!

Joel