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A Letter To The People Who Use Cigarettes

To those with a cigarette in your hand, I am not writing this letter to offend you because that is not my goal one bit. All I want to do is state my opinion. This is coming from a person who coughs every time that she smells the tiniest whiff of smoke — the person who will probably never smoke one cigarette in her life. However, I write this letter because I just wonder, why would you want to destroy your body? Why would you want to put yourself at risk for cancer? Why would you want to have yellow teeth and bad breath? Why would you want to not be able to breathe and have miscellaneous problems with your body that can easily be prevented by not smoking that darn cigarette? Why would you want to put your child at risk with second hand smoke? Why would you want

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Thanksgiving or Thanks, I’ll Take That 50-Inch Flat Screen TV?

November 26, 2015. Thanksgiving Day. What are you thankful for? Are you thankful for the day off from college? The home-cooked food? Or, are you thankful for the ridiculous good deals that the day after Thanksgiving guarantees? Families all over the country just devoured a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner surrounded by their families. As we know it, Thanksgiving is a day where we show that we are thankful for what we have; however, the true meaning of Thanksgiving has been chewed up and spit out by the new era of consumerism known as Black Friday. Now, families leave the grace of their Thanksgiving table and run to the mall and wait for the most important things in the universe that apparently nobody can live without these days: clothes, technology, electronics, etc. At one time in life, people engrossed and paid attention to their surroundings and enjoyed the simplicity of the holiday; now, we trample