In the past, we used to keep packs and packs of various kinds of cigarettes on the coffee tables in our guest rooms, in our fanciest plates, to offer to guests. Even though there were no smokers in our house, we had the most variety. When guests arrived, they would be offered cologne and sugar, and immediately afterwards they would be shown this cigarette plate and offered cigarettes. The inside of the houses would be filled with smoke, both smokers and non-smokers would inhale the same smoke. I think this is the most beautiful custom we used to have in the past, but now we don't have it and it has been lost. I am glad that it has been forgotten and I am glad that smoking inside the house and those who smoke are no longer welcome.

I even hope that smoking on the streets will soon be banned, as it is in many countries, so that young people are not set a bad example.

The most radical and determined country in this regard is Japan. You can never smoke on the street or even in the park. Only in the remotest parts of the parks, there is a special little area, and you can even sit behind iron barriers that look like an animal cage from a distance and smoke your cigarette. While it is already impossible indoors, if you smoke outside these special areas, you will be subjected to incredibly large fines. One of our friends who hid between two buses and tried to smoke in a cramped area without anyone noticing was found hours later and our bus and guide were fined a huge amount.

Everywhere in Japan, underneath the "No smoking here" posters, the reasons why smoking is forbidden are explained and apologized for. These are not health warnings or personal warnings, they are already known to everyone.

These are surprising and thought-provoking:
1-) When you hit a person, you can apologize. But what will you do if you are hit by cigarette smoke? How will you apologize?
2-) The level of your hand carrying the cigarette may be below your waist, but what if it is at the level of a child's face?

Addictions and fears are our ego's biggest game. The ego feeds on addictions and fears. When we think of addiction, we think of addiction to alcohol, cigarettes or drugs, but addiction to things, addiction to people, addiction to technology, addiction to TV-series, addiction to social media are just as dangerous as addiction to cigarettes, alcohol or drugs. While one threatens our physical health, the other destroys our spiritual and mental health and also disrupts our social life.

"When a person thinks of objects, an addiction to them arises. From addiction comes desire. From desire comes anger. From anger comes delusion; from delusion comes the loss of reason; from the loss of reason comes the collapse of the ability to discriminate. With the destruction of the ability to discriminate, one is ruined."
In Bhagavat Gita.

The worst feature of all addictions is that the addict does not realize or even accept that he is addicted.

That's why we are facing a very insidious danger that the popular culture and social media industry, in order to control the planet, in order to be able to sell to the entire planet, they are greedy and they are reinforcing our addictions at any cost. And some dark forces are even pouring huge resources into this insidious danger and the destruction of humanity. In the face of such activity, we have to be vigilant and wake up. Let us not let our children, whom we care about, whom we lose sleep over at night, whom we call our beloved ones, whose fingernails we do not want to be harmed, be wasted and let them slip away in front of our eyes.

Beyond just making sales, those who want to control the entire planet are after creating an addiction industry through mobile phones, the internet or television, TV series, cartoons, 25th frame and subliminal methods, creating an addiction industry, putting people to sleep, numbing the human brain, turning brother against brother, dividing and fragmenting countries, and soon controlling us with chips.

Let's realize that everything and every being, every human being that we are fond of, that we cannot give up, that we love passionately is addiction and let's heal it with love.

Mukaddes Pekin Başdil

Researcher-Author

Source: Denizli Haber