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Let's imagine that you're a smoker. We might not even have to imagine. You've heard that it's a dirty habit, it's killing you, and that you should quit now. Maybe you've even tried to quit, but it's too hard, the nicotine cravings have your hands shaking and your lungs quivering for that next burning suck. Maybe you're looking at a cigarette right now thinking "One more won't hurt, I'll just take one more little puff."
Now imagine that cigarettes are free, you just have to go get them. Free, you just have to go in the store, grab a bag, and load up! Really, no problem, just get as many as you want, and grab a lighter too if yours has gone out.
Of course, there's the zombies to contend with, but that shouldn't be a problem, right? Sure, one bite and you're as good as dead, but that sweet sweet nectar of life is worth it, right? I mean, afterall, the zombies are taking over the place and getting people left and right, it's not like smokings going to be the thing to kill you, might as well light up!
I'm here to tell you differently.
What's the number one complaint about smokers, aside from that "death" thing from lung cancer and second hand smoke? It stinks. Get someone who has been smoking for a year and they reek of it, their breath, their clothes, hair, bodies, everything. After about a year even showering doesn't completely cleanse the body any more of that smell. More than a year and they start to actually exude the smell, not just up close.
What is we talk about with zombies that makes them so deadly? Other than their bity-ness and their ability to tear you limb from limb I mean. They use every sense available to them at its fullest. The smell of a smoker, actively smoking or not, will draw them like honey. They'll swarm when the faintest wind picks up the smell of a newly lit cigarette, and suddenly your safehouse isn't any more and you have to move on. Unfortunately you're leading them on with the scent of smoke and nicotene, and they'll just keep coming. They're relentless.
So I'm here to tell you that smoking won't kill you in the post apocalyptic times of the zombie Hordes. It's not going to give you lung cancer and second-hand smoke isn't going to kill. What will kill will be the zombies it attracts, lurching forward, inexorably searching, sniffing the air, coming on always, simply not stopping until they find the source of the smell they know means humanity. Smoking won't kill, zombies will. Do you want to do this to your loved ones in the Afterwards? Because remember, they're not just coming after you, they're coming after every single person with you. Congratulations, you had to have that smoke, and you've killed everyone you're with.
Want another puff? Quit now, your life depends on it.
Now imagine that cigarettes are free, you just have to go get them. Free, you just have to go in the store, grab a bag, and load up! Really, no problem, just get as many as you want, and grab a lighter too if yours has gone out.
Of course, there's the zombies to contend with, but that shouldn't be a problem, right? Sure, one bite and you're as good as dead, but that sweet sweet nectar of life is worth it, right? I mean, afterall, the zombies are taking over the place and getting people left and right, it's not like smokings going to be the thing to kill you, might as well light up!
I'm here to tell you differently.
What's the number one complaint about smokers, aside from that "death" thing from lung cancer and second hand smoke? It stinks. Get someone who has been smoking for a year and they reek of it, their breath, their clothes, hair, bodies, everything. After about a year even showering doesn't completely cleanse the body any more of that smell. More than a year and they start to actually exude the smell, not just up close.
What is we talk about with zombies that makes them so deadly? Other than their bity-ness and their ability to tear you limb from limb I mean. They use every sense available to them at its fullest. The smell of a smoker, actively smoking or not, will draw them like honey. They'll swarm when the faintest wind picks up the smell of a newly lit cigarette, and suddenly your safehouse isn't any more and you have to move on. Unfortunately you're leading them on with the scent of smoke and nicotene, and they'll just keep coming. They're relentless.
So I'm here to tell you that smoking won't kill you in the post apocalyptic times of the zombie Hordes. It's not going to give you lung cancer and second-hand smoke isn't going to kill. What will kill will be the zombies it attracts, lurching forward, inexorably searching, sniffing the air, coming on always, simply not stopping until they find the source of the smell they know means humanity. Smoking won't kill, zombies will. Do you want to do this to your loved ones in the Afterwards? Because remember, they're not just coming after you, they're coming after every single person with you. Congratulations, you had to have that smoke, and you've killed everyone you're with.
Want another puff? Quit now, your life depends on it.
