我父亲告诉我，在他小时候，没人觉得烟是有害的，抽烟很时髦。
有位电影明星嘴上经常叼着烟，所有美国人都效仿他的行为，他长得非常帅气，他的风格成为了时尚。然而最终，他因为口腔癌离世了。
一位著名的歌手，会在唱歌时抽烟。有人能边唱歌边抽烟，真是令人惊讶，但是他死于肺癌，那时年仅40岁。
于是医生们开始倡议，“香烟有害健康。请停止吸烟！”
这些消息出现后，吸烟在年轻人中甚至变得更加流行。因为他们在设法证明自己，“我敢于冒险，我无所畏惧，我不在乎是否冒着生命的风险。我这么做会很酷。是，我知道这有损健康。那又怎样？”
让我们开始看看周围的世界，从过往的错误中学习经验。让我们学会听取好的建议，而不是去挑战它，而毁掉我们自己。
My father told me that when he was young, nobody had the slightest idea that cigarettes were bad. It was fashionable to smoke cigarettes.
One movie star always had a cigarettes hanging our of his mouth. Everyone in America was trying to imitate the way he did it. He was such a handsome man and his style became the fashion. Eventually however, he died cancer of the lips.
One of the most famous singers would sing while smoking a cigarette. It was amazing how someone could sing while smoking, but he died of lung cancer when he was only forty.
So doctors began coming up with slogans saying," Cigarettes kill you. Stop Smoking!"
When these messages came out, cigarette smoking became even more popular amongst the youth. Why? Because they were trying to prove to themselves, "I am daring. I am fearless. I don't care if I am risking my life. I am going to do it to be cool. Yes, I know it will kill me. So what?"
Let us begin to see the world around us and learn from the past mistakes. Let us begin listening to good advice, rather than challenging it and destroying ourselves.
摘自书籍《The Real You》（真正的你）
作者Radhanath Swami
