The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #126045   Message #2804608
Posted By: VirginiaTam
06-Jan-10 - 04:23 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Smokers Are Scum, a gentle song
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Smokers Are Scum, a gentle song
Having known friends and family members who suffered and died from addiction to tobacco, I think this song misses the target, which should be the tobacco producers not the smokers.

Smokers are victims too. This song is just hurtful to anyone who has lost a loved one to lung cancer or emphysema and other related illnesses.

Technically (in the poetic sense) the song admits that smokers are addicts which excuses more than accuses them and the habit, and conflicts with the message the title and rest of the poem/song proposes.