A young Indian family decided to have children. Both, mother and father smoked since they were young. Young mummy continued with smoking even during her pregnancy although the doctors warned her that smoking was not healthy for the child. She always said and believed that her smoking would not harm her child because by inhaling smoke it went into her lungs and not to the child.

So little Raju was born and his body was already used to tobacco smoke. All his childhood he was passively smoking, which he didn't like at all. Sometimes he was so angry with his parents that he locked himself in his room or threw packets of cigarettes in to the trash. He swore he would never smoke especially after being taught in school how harmful smoking is for people.

Raju was a good student and also a good sportsman. He practiced in the school athletics team and also won several races. Being a successful sportsman he was not in favour of smoking himself, because he thought it was not nice to see a sportsman with a cigarette in his mouth and he thought it would make him slower. Most of the smokers around him fell sick and their faces were always pale due to exposure to smoke, but Raju was 'OK', he just coughed a few times.

At first Raju didn't smoke like his parents and other boys. But finally he also started smoking after succumbing to the pressure at home and he felt that his parents took him more seriously. Initially, he would inhale smoke, but only in his mouth not in his lungs, and then he exhaled it. But when he became a little older he started smoking like any other old person.

Then as time passed, Raju smoked too much and couldn't run as fast anymore. He sometimes even couldn't breathe and often missed practice. Raju didn't blame smoking for this failure but he blamed his lack of practice.

One day, before an important race, Raju was very nervous and he smoked almost a box of cigarettes in turn. He started running the race, but while he was running he fainted because his lungs, brains and muscles ran out of oxygen. Doctors took him to the hospital and they made X-ray pictures of his lungs which detected that he was suffering from Lung cancer. They found out that he had lungs almost half filled with tar and consequently his lungs became very weak.

He was emotionally hurt by the incident so much that he had to give up running, which depressed him a lot, but unfortunately he was not strong enough to stop smoking. He regretted every cigarette and every time he had tried to convince his parents, but had failed.