smoking guns

is it a cancer
gorging the belly
out of the once healthy
innards of humanity

or instead some odd virus
suddenly overtaking
our ability to treat
our fellow man with decency

with all the finger pointing
and shugging of ownership
at the core of the issue
I cannot help but wonder

if we should give up on real diagnosis
and be satisified,instead
to lay the blame on the evils
manifested by the tobacco industry