Why do you smoke?

On Wednesday, June 3, 2009, the maximum temperature was 35 degrees on a partly cloudy day.

My smoke-free day

It is difficult to be smoke-free, and it is difficult to reach the sky. This is my biggest feeling after celebrating the 22nd World No Tobacco Day.

I have to go to work on May 31st. I asked for leave because I was harvesting crops at home. This way I can avoid being bombarded by smokers at work, and I can also watch smoking control news and do many other things. Woolen cloth.

I got up a little late in the morning. During my meal time, I turned on the TV to watch "Chao Wen Tian Xia". I happened to catch up with the broadcast of the "Quit Smoking in One Hour, Healthy Billion People" campaign initiative, which called on everyone to start from the afternoon. Quit smoking for one hour from 5:31 to 6:31. My heart froze when I saw the title. Is this the activity for today’s No Tobacco Day? This is so boring. Today is supposed to be 24 hours smoke-free, but you only call on others to quit smoking for one hour! So what do you do with the remaining 23 hours? If this is the case, World No Tobacco Day should be changed to World No Tobacco Hour.

But I was relieved soon, because the subtitle news at the bottom of the screen said that the theme of this year’s World No Tobacco Day is: tobacco health warning. Thank God, it finally smelled like World No Tobacco Day, and there was really no smell of smoke in the house that time.

After drying the wheat, I saw that nothing happened, so I went to the county with the materials I had prepared. When I walked to the door of the county committee, I saw that the county Center for Disease Control and Prevention was holding a no-smoking day event, and It was quite popular, and I was very happy. I stopped the car and took a closer look, only to realize that the activities with others were different from what I thought. I originally thought that today’s activity must be related to tobacco packaging, but who knew that the banner above the activity point actually said: Create a smoke-free environment and enjoy a healthy life! Isn't that the theme of No Tobacco Day in 2007? Why are you still promoting this now? Think about it, after all, the ultimate goal of No Tobacco Day is to create a smoke-free environment. Forget it, as long as it can help achieve a smoke-free environment, it doesn’t matter what the theme is, so I parked the car and walked towards the promotion point.

I first asked the publicity staff for their promotional materials, and they gave me one copy. I asked if they could get me a few more copies. I wanted to show them to more people in our village. So the enthusiastic propagandist gave me more than a dozen "Guide to Smoking Smoking" and a stack of "Xi'an Interim Regulations on Prohibiting Smoking in Public Places" posters. I looked at the posters specifically, and my God, it was still 1998. It has been published for more than ten years, but you still use this kind of information? I thought that taking so many posters back would only mislead people, and they were not light in weight, so I only took three of them, saying one was for my family and one for my work, and I could just take the rest with me. The man who looked like a leader who had been standing nearby handing out materials asked me where I worked. I said I was in the transportation system, and he said that the targets of my tobacco control propaganda should be people in my workplace, because nowadays most people in workplaces smoke. . Taking this opportunity, I took out my promotional materials. Only then did I realize that I had forgotten to translate the materials downloaded from the Hong Kong Department of Health into Simplified Chinese. It is estimated that not many people can understand Traditional Chinese now. The person saw it and asked me if I was a volunteer publicist, and I said yes. He introduced to his two female colleagues in white coats that I was a voluntary tobacco control campaigner and that my spirit was worth learning. I feel like I have a fever on my face and I feel a little dizzy. I don’t know if it’s because I didn’t get the information right. At this time, many people came from the direction of the county party committee. The people from the CDC stopped talking and distributed information to them. They also introduced that today is World No Tobacco Day. Please take a look at the information, smoke less, and preferably quit smoking. . I also took this opportunity to bring out the information on Xintan Health Development Center for them to circulate, hoping it would be useful.

I was disappointed to find that many people were still spitting smoke when they came to the propaganda point. Even after reading the information, most of them did not put out the cigarettes in their hands. Several people still followed my reminder. I just remembered to put out the cigarette, but many people disagreed, saying that if you don't allow smoking, it will make your life miserable. A gray-haired old man also said that as long as the country is producing cigarettes, he will continue to smoke.

Today's atmospheric environment does not seem to be very good. Although it is a sunny day, the air convection movement does not seem to be strong. The smoke mostly advects in all directions near the height of people's noses, making people avoid it. But soon it was time for school to end, and the arrival of the little children cheered up the people at the CDC. The person who looked like a leader told me that it is no longer possible to get smokers to quit smoking. The key is to Start with teenagers and don’t let them smoke their first cigarette. Only in this way, as smokers are naturally eliminated year by year, there will be fewer and fewer smokers around us. To be honest, I don't agree with this statement, but I don't know how to refute it. It seems that I have to work harder in this regard.

A large amount of information was distributed very quickly. If it weren’t for the quick hands of the publicist in a white coat next to me, the information I gave her would have been snatched up. This made me very happy. However, can these information, which are either static or come from abroad, enable the majority of young people to consciously get rid of the all-pervasive temptation of tobacco companies? Really questionable.

It was dinner time soon. When I returned home, I watched the noon news, but was disappointed to find that except for subtitles, there was almost no news related to smoking control. My dad was obviously not interested in the news about today's No Tobacco Day. He always smoked non-stop, and he also smoked several cigarettes during the smoking cessation period advocated by the TV station, but luckily he didn't smoke in the house during the whole day. The news broadcast in the evening was also disappointing. Except for a piece of news related to the "2009 China Smoking Control Report", there was almost no news about smoking control. So after reading the weather forecast, I continued to do my work.

My dad was smoking in the house at night, and I had no choice but to hide out. Even so, the second-hand smoke I inhaled today exceeded the smoke-free standards I set. This year’s smoke-free day is not destined to be A true smoke-free day. You know, for this smoke-free day, I asked for a day off from the section chief who was addicted to smoking after humbly begging and promising not to delay my work. I was going to take two days off to avoid secondhand smoke.

The road to smoke-free is far and long. When will our air be 100% smoke-free?

My Smoke-free Month

I thought that after the unit moved, it would provide our department with an environment that was more conducive to a smoke-free life. Who knew that the environment in the new office would be even worse? Although our department and conference room are arranged together, occupying 7 large rooms in one house, the computer room is arranged in a small room at the end of the conference room that is not ventilated except for the door. When you smoke a cigarette, you don't have more than ten or even dozens of hours to let the smell of smoke completely dissipate; the 6-room conference room outside the door only has four windows, and most of the window sash are nailed shut. , unable to form effective convective wind at all. The ventilation efficiency of such an environment is not even as good as that of a house with only one window. No matter whether others are smoking in the house, as long as I am working in the workplace, I am actually breathing second-hand smoke every second.

My colleagues in the work felt that smoking was more exciting in that small room, so after installing the computer, I swept out more cigarette butts every morning than before, and the uneven cement floor could not be mopped. Cleaning, I don’t know how much ash can be accumulated in a day. The no-smoking sign that always hangs alone on the wall has been completely relegated to obscurity here and can never be found again. Even the smoke-free slogan screen saver I made on my computer was deleted every few days. In this way, my smoke-free month was only implemented for two and a half days, and by the afternoon of May 6, it could no longer be realized.

I wanted to install the pavement and bridge system database on my work computer at home so that I can complete my work at home, but I found that all those databases require the computer to be connected to the Internet, and I don’t plan to do so just yet. Give it up for home networking.

On a weekend in mid-May, I originally wanted to fill in some information manually at home, but I had to go back to the office because I needed to check construction drawings and information online. In this way, I wasted a weekend that could have been 100% smoke-free

I once thought about going online to carry out smoking control work in a permanently smoke-free library, but found that the Internet speed there simply could not meet my requirements. Many times, emails that could be sent in a few minutes at work would take an hour in the library. It may not be possible to send it out, and the Internet access limit in the library is just one hour, so I can't do anything there. So after installing the network cable in the work unit, I still had to endure the thick second-hand smoke while promoting a smoke-free environment. work hard to achieve.

In this way, my first smoke-free month after working was postponed indefinitely again. I took two days off after the Dragon Boat Festival to avoid the nightmare of second-hand smoke on World No Tobacco Day. .

I thought that paying a lot of money to take a smoke-free highway bus would prevent me from inhaling second-hand smoke on the road, but the ruthless facts shattered my fantasy.

Originally, it only cost 15 yuan to take the low-speed bus back and forth to my home, but in order to realize the smoke-free month in May, I decided to spend more money to take the high-speed bus. Who knew that it has almost never happened since 2005? Second-hand smoke has appeared several times this month. The first time was on the afternoon of May 8, when the bus was undergoing over-limit inspection at Weinan West Passenger Terminal. Although the driver left the car while smoking, he did not close the door, and the smoke was blown in by the wind. When I raised this issue, the driver said that as long as I didn’t smoke in the car, there would be no problem. After reversing in Xi'an that night, a middle-aged passenger in the car had a verbal conflict with the conductor because of his smoking. Although he finally put out his cigarette under the objections of the people in the car, the smoke had already filled the entire car, and the man turned a blind eye to it. , without even looking at the "Guidelines for the Implementation of Article 8 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control" that he was asked to read, he just plausibly said that smoking in the car is his right.

The second time was on the afternoon of May 27. If I hadn’t run into a traffic jam, I would have had a chance to ride a smoke-free bus. Unfortunately, as soon as the car arrived at the section near the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, there was a big traffic jam. A passenger asked to get out of the car to smoke, which caused the driver to have a smoking addiction. The driver did not have the consciousness of the passengers. He just opened the window and started to swallow the clouds eagerly. Breathing mist. After the protest failed, I had to get out of the car to avoid the traffic jam and followed the car on foot for several kilometers until the road cleared. Even so, the car was still filled with a strong smell of smoke during the rest of the journey. After reversing, we were still in the city because of the traffic jam. A passenger couldn't bear it and started smoking. Although he quickly put it out under the protest of the conductor and the pressure from me to pass the smoking control information to the people next to him, the passenger still kept mumbling. . After reading my information, that person still disagreed. An old farmer next to me also said that even if smoking is poisonous, you still have to smoke when you should. It is really helpless.

Two rides on the high-speed cost me the same amount as three times of three low-speed rides. The time spent inhaling second-hand smoke did not seem to be significantly reduced, and I saw the Liqun Tobacco Company on the southwest side of the Fangjiacun overpass in Xi'an twice in a row. The advertisement makes people feel very unhappy. The advertising slogan says it well, let your soul travel! However, only smoke-free travel is a healthy spiritual travel! What's more, when I was in elementary school, I didn't have a good impression of "good cat" and always wanted to change it to "harmful cat", just like changing "good cat" to "bad cat". It's really not worth spending a lot of money on secondhand smoke these two times.

I originally thought that although my dad could not quit smoking, he would be able to consciously stop smoking in front of me like I did before the college entrance examination. Who knew that May 9, 10, 28, 29, 30, and 31 During the past few days in my hometown, I had to accept the impact of my dad exercising his rights almost every day - smoking secondhand smoke, and even my mother and I were unable to enjoy smoke-free air. Even the weekend I spent in Weinan on the 23rd and 24th was not 100% smoke-free because of the second-hand smoke coming in from outside my house. Although I quickly posted a note outside my house asking others not to come in my house. Smoking within 5 meters does not seem to help. As long as the tenants with cigarettes in their mouths passed by my door, the smoke would float in from the door and would not disperse for a long time.

Every day during the smoke-free month, I am inhaling second-hand smoke. Can this smoke-free month still be called a smoke-free month?

No Tobacco Month Activities:

Revolving around the theme of this year’s World No Tobacco Day: tobacco health warnings, in order to achieve the goal of a smoke-free life as soon as possible, I have mainly carried out the following work , a lot of the work is done in offices filled with thick smoke, which does not seem to be in line with the goals of the smoke-free month, but in order to achieve smoke-free indoor places, I can temporarily accept second-hand smoke.

1. The World Health Organization determined the theme of this year’s World No Tobacco Day as early as January a few years ago, but the Chinese version has not been released for a long time. As a result, the theme that is obviously not the theme of this year’s World No Tobacco Day has been posted online. Although I very much agree with this theme - rejecting second-hand smoke, if we do not take various measures proposed by the mpower series of policies, especially measures to warn of the dangers of tobacco, it is almost impossible to achieve a smoke-free environment. In order to realize the dream of "rejecting second-hand smoke and letting the lungs breathe freely", I had to give up my rest time and use every opportunity to promote the theme of this year's World No Tobacco Day determined by the World Health Organization - "Tobacco Health Warning" and its slogan online. "Picture warnings show the dangers of tobacco". At first, I tried to translate some things myself to answer questions for people who asked questions on Baidu Zhizhi. I also reposted the English information from the World Health Organization to my blog. Later, I learned about the Chinese version of The World. After the topic of health organization, I immediately reposted it to my blog and answered more related Baidu Know questions.

2. In order to increase the number of visits to the New Exploration and Tobacco Control Forum, I added a link to the New Exploration and Tobacco Control on the answer page that Baidu knows, and tried to combine the concepts of ecology, environmental protection and biology to adopt Some of the latest international information answered some questions, but due to some kind of transaction between Baidu and tobacco companies, many similar answers were deleted by Baidu administrators after submission. In desperation, I could only upload them through Baidu Know. It took me a lot of time to promote these materials to the people who asked these questions through the messaging function, and the publicity effect was very poor. In order to avoid this situation happening again, I had no choice but to give up those ideas that were originally good and continue to promote them in a low-key manner.

3. On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, I used the Google Alert function provided by Google Search to customize a lot of content related to tobacco control. In this way, I can receive a large amount of tobacco control information every day, edit the best and repost it to New Exploration on Smoking Control and my blog to promote the popularity of the concept of smoke-free life; at the same time, I have also re-edited and posted my previous personal smoking control diary online for others to refer to. This work is still in progress and will take some time to complete. Finish.

4. In order to obtain more tobacco control information, in addition to the World Health Organization website, I also tried to browse more foreign websites. One of the more useful ones is suitable for people with low English proficiency. The method for obtaining foreign information is: use a search engine to search for documents with any keywords and the suffix "pdf" or "ppt", and you can obtain publicly published Chinese version information from many countries. In order to facilitate others to access these materials, I am uploading these materials. The links are compiled and sent to my blog. By browsing foreign web pages, my English ability has been improved to a certain extent, but this is still far from what I need for work. For this reason, I plan to further learn English to better read international tobacco control materials.

It was cloudy on Sunday, June 7, 2009

It was cloudy on Sunday, December 8, 2002

(Due to the December 7 incident), I Annoyed and angry, he embarked on the road eastward.

I don’t know where I’m going, nor how far I have to go. Maybe I won’t come back until dark, or even stay up all night.

Last night’s extreme pollution was the root cause of all this.

I walked to the end of Weihui Road and wanted to make a harassment call, but no one answered. I wanted to yell into the phone: I am making a bomb now!

No, I can't do this. I can't frighten or deceive my classmates like this, especially Liu Dongfeng. I must not let them be implicated because of the pollution incident. Society is keen on creating pollution, and sometimes we have to obey, even though it will cause harm to ourselves. I can never do this!

The canal is still the Weihui Canal, but the name of the road needs to be changed. The road we take now is no longer called Weihui Road, but called Xibao Middle Line. The road becomes narrower and narrower, but the street trees on the roadside are getting taller and taller. The ditches on the roadside were filled with disgusting black muddy water, carrying messy plastic bags, rotten boards and other things.

Very fast, oh no, it should be very slow, but now I really can’t tell whether I am walking fast or slowly. I have already passed the intersection of the Hujiadi-Kawakou highway, heading east, towards East, aimlessly heading east along the center line of Xibao, my chest felt a little tight and my throat felt like it was stuck. This was all caused by the pollution last night. Xiangdong, Xiangdong, I really don’t understand, it’s the 21st century now, and environmental protection has been talked about for more than 30 years! Why are people still so keen on creating serious pollution? Knowing that doing so is not good for yourself or others? And things like this often happen in the most unlikely places! (Scientific evidence has pointed out) There is no air circulation in the room, and there is no self-purification ability. Is (such a place) a place for smoking? I have been studying this problem for more than ten years, and I still can't figure it out. I have to look east, east, where the answer to this question may be.

When Qishui River arrived, the road gradually widened, and the black water on the roadside disappeared, replaced by green wheat. A long and winding river flowing with thick, dark water came down from the northern plateau and passed through the Longhai Railway Bridge not far upstream, which may have been left by the Kuomintang. It passed under my feet and crossed the Qishui River Bridge. Then it flows across the invisible high-speed bridge downstream and flows into the Weihe River, which is already smelly.

I still remember my high school days. I hated smoking and often couldn’t study because of the smoke in the environment. At that time, cigarette smoke was the main culprit that reduced work efficiency. So in my senior year of high school, I was able to improve my study efficiency by It needs to be improved to expel smokers in a dignified manner. That year, information from the central media and foreign countries made me think that university is a paradise for non-smokers. Who knows, but now I can only keep walking eastward, as far as possible. Although the weather was not very good and the visibility was less than 5 kilometers, it did not affect my walking. I decided to continue walking until I didn't want to walk.

I will never give up my anti-smoking plan just because I took a puff of cigarette. I will continue to oppose smoking in buildings with roofs and walls, no matter how difficult it is! Just like walking today, I will never stop until I reach my goal! I saw a tall beige building standing far away at the bottom of the slope at the end of the railway. Then I saw a large village. When passing a railway level crossing, I saw a wide road on the other side of the railway. The streets and tall bungalows made me feel that this place should be more than just a village. Going forward, the road suddenly became very narrow. It was so narrow that I almost pushed up a cow with a minibus. I had nowhere to hide. I saw a small road to the north and walked on it. Passing through a dark, rugged tunnel, the outlook is bright.

I just realized that this was a big train station, much bigger than the small station in Yangling. I wanted to get out but walked a long way but couldn’t find a way out. Just when I was planning to When I asked the station staff, a few lively children made my eyes light up: if you follow them, you can definitely get out.

I climbed a steep slope to the east along the road next to the station square, then went south to the viaduct, crossed the railway and the Xibao Central Line, and then arrived at the highway intersection. Only then did I realize that I was already on the highway. Provincial Highway 107 from Lantian, there is still 158 kilometers from here to Lantian! Too far! But I still wanted to walk forward, so I got on the Weihe River Bridge.

It was already dark when I decided to go back to the dormitory, and the way back was still forty or fifty miles away! When I returned to the dormitory, the host was already preparing to lock the door.

December 11, 2002

In the winter of 1948, Kuomintang Lieutenant General Yang Deliang, who was the director of the Xi'an Public Security Bureau, the security commander of the Xi'an Garrison District and the commander of the 36th Reorganized Division, was walking on the street. A cigarette seller who illegally occupied the road was shot to death, causing great public outrage.

It’s not a big deal to kill those guys who affect the environment, city appearance and traffic, but that guy named Yang Deliang is definitely not doing it to improve the city’s appearance and environment. Besides, it’s not his turn to do environmental law enforcement. , he just dislikes others, just like he dislikes the student movement that benefits the country and the people. No wonder he is also nicknamed "The Murderer King".

It’s very cold today. Normally, the narrowest part of the street occupies this road that could have been used by four large vehicles in parallel. Even pedestrians cannot pass. The vendors did not come out. The vehicles came and went in an orderly manner on the road. Orderly, I like this kind of environment, and the Chinese Business News said that foreigners also like this kind of environment. They are not like some people who always want to make the environment a mess.

But it’s not that some people have to make a mess of the environment. This is also related to the poor management of the relevant units and their simple and crude law enforcement methods. Just like Yang Deliang, if he could be civilized, courteous, and courteous, it is estimated that not only the vendors would support the city appearance management work, but also he would not cause riots among the citizens.

A complete collection of weird and annoying things

1. Regardless of the health of yourself and others, puffing up smoke in a closed room.

2. Don’t want to be quiet and don’t let others make noise quietly.

3. Littering means garbage that is not thrown into the designated place.

4. What would rather block the street is the act of occupying the road that prevents others from walking smoothly.

5. Some people not only do not actively follow the international advanced trend, but always say that they have done a good job (for example, smokers often say that the pollution in factories is worse than them).

6. No one always pays attention to quality education, which has hundreds of benefits and no harm, but has a soft spot for exam-oriented education, which science and time have proven to be very harmful to children.

7. In addition to fighting and killing, film and television dramas only talk about love and never talk about environmental protection, science and peace.

8. Why did I accept the cigarette offered by others and take a puff? Is this how the smoke-free plan that has been implemented for more than ten years completely failed so easily?