Once you pop, you can't stop

It just occured to me why I have always found the term non-smoker irritating when used to categorize someone that quit smoking cigarettes. You see, once you have smoked you have performed a new action that is akin to sex. You don't have to do it, you just feel the urge and really really want to, but you don't have to. You can quit having sex, but you are not a virgin. It is the same as with smoking. You smoke that first cigarette and you are forever changed. I would go so far as to argue that if you smoke pipes, cigars or joints, you are a smoker and will not be able to go long without your junk. Forgive me if I am wrong, but it is pretty much the same thing...A leaf that is dried, cut and as it is burned, the smoke is inhaled into the body~not always the lungs, but burning cut leaves and sucking the smoke into your mouth is involved: Smoking. Admit it. You are always a non-virgin just as you are always a non-smoker. Technically, you could say that you are a non-smoker any time that you are not smoking, so it is not honest anyway. Just say that you are a "quitter". Much more honest, much more positive in respect to the fact that you no longer smoke and also more confident sounding. Scott: a quitter. I don't know if I like that or not. Yikes. Kinda too honest perhaps. But I still stand by my original point that once you are a smoker you are never going to be a non-smoker again, just as once you have sex, you are never a virgin again. I have my feelings about the term "virgin", but I will save that for another blog another day.