In life, almost everyone experiences the need to get away from it all. Everyday pressures conspire to anger us and fill us with a desire to strike back or escape. Psychologists have been calling it the “fight or flight” response for years. Well now there’s a way you can “fight” and escape. It’s all contained within a lovels clinically white cylindrical package. For years people have been smoking cigarrettes as a means of escape. Calming down from a stressful day with your nicotine fix was the norm for a hundred years, but recent events have come to condemn this form of escape. The campaign to end cigarrettes is fought by an underhanded, canniving group calling themselves "Truth". Everyday people living hard, trying lives are being persecuted with a tenacity not seen since the lions were chasing the Christians around. Picture your typical cowboy. He rides the lonesome prairie guiding cattle to new pastures for the pifulous pay his employer thinks is the bare minimum he’ll work for. This poor man is forced to live his life separate from friends and family and civilization. The little bit of enjoyment he gets during his tiring labor is from a small lit cigarrette hanging from his lip. The slow trickle of nicotine into his system enables him to carry on through the blistering sun, the freezing cold, and the driving rain. He isn’t trying to look cool, he’s just trying to survive. Now this lucidious organization of pampered children decides to target our poor cowboy by mocking his way of life, the way he talks, and the fact that he smokes. They target millions nation-wide. Hundreds of thousands of people view the machinations of this group and laugh to themselves about our poor cowboy.

Now let’s envision the lives of some college students. They've overcome their racial divisions. They're seeking an understanding of life and where they fit in. Adults don't understand them, their teachers don't understand them, they've nowhere to turn. They tirelessly strive for acceptance and attempt to stay ahead of what life has in store for them. On occasion they drink to forget their perpetual struggle, but this incapacitates them, causing an inability to properly reason or stand for that matter. Hence, cigarrettes are introduced. While smoking, these students can relax while maintaining their hectic lifestyles. Smoking doesn't impair their ability to think or study for their exams. It lets them stay up later than normal and maintain that edge they need to get by in the life society has thrust upon them. Now "Truth" comes along and tries to tell them that they can't maintain this lifestyle and that it's foolish to try for that degree of enlightenment that they've been striving for, for so long. "Truth" further attempts to distort reality by providing sketchy details about the harmful nature of smoking cigarrettes. Ads for "Truth" frequently refer to tar as being a cancer causing substance, but don't go into any detail about this. They also make up fake things that are in cigarrettes, such as "false self-confidence," which from my minimal experience existing, does not exist. Proving the existence of real self-confidence is a task no sane mortal would attempt, and here "Truth" claims they've discovered the artificial equivalent. If this was the case, surely mankind would be greatly benefited by its being revealed to the public. Introverted high school students could proudly walk the halls. This would undoubtedly be a great boon for humanity. But no, "Truth" keeps the secret of this tobacco ingredient closely gaurded from those of us who would eagerly inject/ingest it to relieve our social tensions!

Many would ask, "What can be done about this travesty of justice?" I have an answer. Go to Denial's webpage, and sign the petition to give money confiscated from tobacco companies back to tax paying citizens! Down with "Truth"!