Anti-Smoking Speech To Kids

I gave my Anti-Smoking speech at a 5th and 6th grade intermediate school today for 500 students. It was so gratifying for me to be able to go back to speaking since my second head injury (slip and fall) and my heart operation.

 I talked into the microphone without my artificial larynx and there was no voice.  Then I talked into the microphone with my artificial larynx and they were mesmerized.  They sat there for 30 minutes and listened to me speak. During the 15 minute Q&A they asked questions, smart questions.  ”If cigarettes kill us why don’t we make them illegal,” “why didn’t our teachers tell us the consequences of smoking and second hand smoke?”They asked how I breathe through the whole in my neck. I took out the   button (the filter) and explained how I breathe.

 After I finished kids surrounded me at the Microphone talked to me, told me about their parents smoking, they smoked, but never will smoke again or now that you told us the truth about smoking I will never smoke. One 5th grade girl with tears in her eyes handed me a half package of cigarettes and said please take them, I’ll never smoke again. A teacher came up to me and hugged me and said you convinced me, thank you. Most of them around me wanted to look at the whole in my neck.

 Now, I know why God let me live through all my suffering with my 2 head injuries, cancer and heart operations. I have never done anything in my life more gratifying than what I did today.