Sutta"Sutta na milla", "Sutta na mila" is the latest song on every teenager’s lips these days. When I heard this song for the first time, my first reaction was “Oh! What a weird song”. I was surprised to know that the song was composed by a group of IIT students who released it illegally over the internet.
Anyway, I will not be discussing about the song or its composer. What I really want to emphasize upon is the term 'Sutta'.
'Sutta' as referred in Mumbaiyya language to what we know as 'cigarette', is a term which defines itself per se. No, No,No! Don't expect any facts and figures from me because I am hardly good at it. What I really want to share is my opinion on this nuisance. I want to share how I feel when walking down the footpath I find a group of people doing nothing but smoking, smoking and smoking; how I feel when I see a teenager sitting under a tree and lost in that puff; how I feel when I saw my trainer smoking - a young, pretty damsel smoking in front of her students; and how I feel when my best friend told me that he too, is not different from the entire crowd.
The question here is not whether the smokers are your best friends, your trainer, your relative or whoever they may be. The question here is why do they smoke? What makes them smoke? And what if they don’t?
When I asked these questions to a number of people their responses were 'for concentration', 'for fun', 'habit', etc. I was very puzzled. 'How can somebody need tobacco to concentrate?' 'How can somebody derive fun from it?'. If people need some medium to concentrate, that itself indicates how weak their willpower is.
I have, always, been of the opinion that people who fall prey to such activities have a very weak will power. Here, I would like to site an example. Four years back my brother used to live in Mumbai with his colleagues. All his roommates had the drinking habit, but my brother never got into it. He had been to US as well, but never kneeled down before this monster. All that had been possible because he had a strong will power.
Every day I watch a colleague smoke two to three cigarettes in an hour. I would like to stress here that he is a guy who is good at everything or should I say best at everything and also a good human being. Now, if we remove this one bad habit from him then won't he be a complete package? I don't say that everybody should be perfect. In fact, everybody has some bad trait but this is something that one is acquiring purposely and can avoid it.
I always wonder why cigarette packets contain this statutory warning 'Cigarette smoking is injurious to health'. If the government really wants people to refrain from this, then why does it allow selling this stuff? It should prohibit it completely. Just for the tax and revenue the government makes it people consume such toxicants.
Human species have been classified into different kinds. But I divide them as active smoker, passive smoker and non-smoker. Active smokers are those whose legend we have discussed so far, passive smoker are those who live in the vicinity of the active ones and the non-smoker are the rest barring the above mentioned ones. We as non-smokers have the possibility of shifting under these categories or else we can bring them under our category.
The decision is up to you.
Anyway, I will not be discussing about the song or its composer. What I really want to emphasize upon is the term 'Sutta'.
'Sutta' as referred in Mumbaiyya language to what we know as 'cigarette', is a term which defines itself per se. No, No,No! Don't expect any facts and figures from me because I am hardly good at it. What I really want to share is my opinion on this nuisance. I want to share how I feel when walking down the footpath I find a group of people doing nothing but smoking, smoking and smoking; how I feel when I see a teenager sitting under a tree and lost in that puff; how I feel when I saw my trainer smoking - a young, pretty damsel smoking in front of her students; and how I feel when my best friend told me that he too, is not different from the entire crowd.
The question here is not whether the smokers are your best friends, your trainer, your relative or whoever they may be. The question here is why do they smoke? What makes them smoke? And what if they don’t?
When I asked these questions to a number of people their responses were 'for concentration', 'for fun', 'habit', etc. I was very puzzled. 'How can somebody need tobacco to concentrate?' 'How can somebody derive fun from it?'. If people need some medium to concentrate, that itself indicates how weak their willpower is.
I have, always, been of the opinion that people who fall prey to such activities have a very weak will power. Here, I would like to site an example. Four years back my brother used to live in Mumbai with his colleagues. All his roommates had the drinking habit, but my brother never got into it. He had been to US as well, but never kneeled down before this monster. All that had been possible because he had a strong will power.
Every day I watch a colleague smoke two to three cigarettes in an hour. I would like to stress here that he is a guy who is good at everything or should I say best at everything and also a good human being. Now, if we remove this one bad habit from him then won't he be a complete package? I don't say that everybody should be perfect. In fact, everybody has some bad trait but this is something that one is acquiring purposely and can avoid it.
I always wonder why cigarette packets contain this statutory warning 'Cigarette smoking is injurious to health'. If the government really wants people to refrain from this, then why does it allow selling this stuff? It should prohibit it completely. Just for the tax and revenue the government makes it people consume such toxicants.
Human species have been classified into different kinds. But I divide them as active smoker, passive smoker and non-smoker. Active smokers are those whose legend we have discussed so far, passive smoker are those who live in the vicinity of the active ones and the non-smoker are the rest barring the above mentioned ones. We as non-smokers have the possibility of shifting under these categories or else we can bring them under our category.
The decision is up to you.
