by Jishi Santos

Created on: February 24, 2011

Now smoking has gone through many stages

in the history of the blue/green planet,

and now tis judged so harshly and sore

that if you smoke you are forced to can it

The indigenous tribes around the world smoke,

they commune and discuss over pipes and cigarettes,

and think not of their health but of friendly joke

and laughter amongst the camp smoke and their pets.

From New Guinea to Peru and across to Africa,

the pipes are carved with skill and love

and fulfill a tradition of peaceful communication, ah

what non judgemental atmosphere is found above.

For with their smoking customs they commune to the drum

and watch the smoke rise at night towards the stars,

from whence they claim they once did come

and all is peaceful in the desert as they salute Venus and Mars.

Now we in the west have lost the plot and condemned

the habit of smoking and enjotying these same traditions,

our tobacco companies change the pure leaf no end

and you will die if you smoke and make dirty emmissions.

Smoking should be of a person's free choice and desire,

and be regarded as custom sharing during communication,

light up, drawback and puff out around the campfire

and join the peace makers of every earthly nation.

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