This poem compares smoking to various destructive forces through vivid metaphors to convey the negative health impacts. It depicts smoking as tumbling skyscrapers, slicing bullets, flaming volcanoes, bellowing wolves, caged air, tearing sharks, splintering diseases, demolishing wrecking balls, and whistling, chest-piercing swords to represent how smoking damages the lungs, body, and life like these forces of destruction. The poem aims to portray smoking as a relentless and damaging activity through dramatic metaphors.

1. Pet peeve poem
Smoking
Smoking is Like a sky scraper tumbling and flinging down on you.
Like a bullet slicing through your lungs.
Like a volcano that never stops flaming your insides.
Like a furious wolf that never stops bellowing in the night.
Like living hostage in a cage with no air to inhale.
Like when a raging shark that never stops tearing at you.
Like a disease splintering through your body.
Like a wrecking ball that will never stop demolishing.
Like a splintering sword whistling through your chest.
Like being smuthereed by an earthquakes terrorizing deeds.
By Mason.