Friend or foe?
The Word Birds from The Commonweal School

Ring a ring of roses
A packet full of cigarettes
Cancer, cancer
we all fall down

Smoking, smoking, smoking!
It’s satisfying, stress relieving; it makes me feel so good.
It’s revolting, life destroying; it makes you look so old!
It’s comforting, it’s mood enhancing, status giving and cool.
It’s repulsive, disgusting, nauseating and uncool.

It makes me calm when life’s a drag,
Why can’t they understand?
It’s like all of life’s worries just disappear
When that cig is in my hand
All it takes is just one puff
But all it takes is just one puff

It makes us sick to watch
As people throw their lives away
Don’t they know its lethal?
They’re hooked from the first day
But all I want is just one puff
All it takes is just one puff

I’m addicted to my habit of 20 fags a day
I’ve tried to give it uop just as the doctors say
But my heart wasn’t really in it
Because after all….
It’s satisfying, stress relieving; it makes me feel so good
I’ll give it up tomorrow, just one more puff.
But all it takes is just one puff.