Introduction to "Coughing up a Lung"

My final essay is a blog entry that I wrote on May 5. It is a story about my experience with smoking. This is a writer’s choice and I feel this is an example of my writing style. If I had my way I would only write stories and most of them funny, but English teachers like the difficult stuff like a definition essay. This essay shows my voice and is a great example of why people should not smoke. “In my backyard we had a bushel of straw, and had the brilliant idea to smoke it. After coughing for 20 minutes, we decided that not everything can be smoked.”