Some thoughts about Alan Landers

I was "forced" to read the economist to find have some comments about an obituary that made me impressed, and I found it helpful to read some of these articles. I spent some time skimming through this page. Some attracted me, and it's difficult to figure out which one I'd write about. I'd like to talk something about Alan Landers, who was killed by cigarettes, and he spent most of his late life struggling against tobacco companies.

Alan is great. He didn't die in silence. He died while he struggled for the right.

To me, to some extents, tobacco companies have to be responsible for their products. They not only produce tobacco, but also create the trend, icons... for people to get addicted to smoking. They have to take that kind of responsibility to the death of thousands people, the lost of their families, and the bad habits for the young people, who just follow their friends, fathers, mothers... to be admired as "adults". They make money on the death of the others.

We all know that fact. And before smoking, smokers have to look at the cover, and see a huge sentence "Smoking is harmful". However, I wonder how many of these smokers close that pack after seeing that sentence? Is it too late to blame tobacco companies for their deaths even when they decided to smoke? I suppose that each of our decisions is the result of different aspects, from the surroundings such as friends, families, the living conditions, the situation and the most important factor is yourself. It's your choice to follow your friends, it's your choice to keeping smoking instead of hundreds propaganda, laws against smoking. you may try it one or two tubes if you like, but you can quit it easily from the early times. Hence, from my point of view, it's not only the tobacco companies to be blamed, but also smokers themselves.