Teenage cigarettes
don't seem so bad for young fools
who want to be bad.

No one wants to tongue
their smoky yellow teeth
or smell their stank breath.

The teachers smell it,
the parents smell it as well,
but the kids don't know.

Working men realize how dumb
they were in their teenage years.

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