SMOKING               


            This story, which is placed into the DRUGS section, is about the habit of smoking. What the author tries to explain here is his own experience with the cigarrettes, and for it he divides the story into three sections:
    1) When he began to smoke and why he did it.
    2) What he felt when he was smoking for a long time.
    3) How he tried to leave it up, to stop`smoking and what he did it in order to get it.

           However, the most interesting thing in this story is that it is one of the most interactive stories we can find in the section because he engages people to send him their relationship with the tobacco and how they passed through these 3 stages. And people contributed a lot to this idea sending their 'short stories' about smoking to this site!!
            That was the real intention of Derek Powazek: to construct a whole story with the stories from the rest of the people in order to conform a little community around a story.
            The fact that he places a suggestion at the end, an invitation to everybody to write their opinion is not a particular item of this storym because he does it in every almost of his stories; but the really important thing here is that he builds up a story helped by the rest of the community , not only tells him a story and the rest of people send their opinions but the rest of the people is who tells the story at least!!.



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