I’m here to suggest you get around to it now.

And I’m taking a different approach. I’m going to tell you why you should REALLY quit. And before I start, let me just say, I smoked for 13 years. I started on Newports at 12, switched to Kools in my late teens, and when I stopped I was smoking Benson & Hedges. I mention these to let you know I wasn’t tooling around with Marlboro lights or some other completely pointless cigarette.

I was smoking two packs a day and I quit cold turkey at 25. Though I sometimes miss it, I will never smoke again. And I’m going to give you 10 reasons you shouldn’t either.

1. You stink.

Yes, literally. I don't want to hurt your feelings, but you smell funky, baby. But, you don’t know that, cos you’re so used to it you don’t smell it anymore. And I’m not just talking about your breath. Your hair, your clothes, your skin, your house – even if you don’t smoke in it – it all be stank. Have you ever read The Witches by Roald Dahl? The Witches want to rub out all the children on earth, cos, to witches, they have an unbearable stench.

Y’all smokers stink like that, whether you believe it or not. You smell so bad, that non-smokers remark on it when you go back to your cubicle. They wonder if you know. You don’t, of course – if you knew, you would have stopped by now.