In the 1990 article "I'd Rather Kiss Than Smoke" in the National Review, Florence King tries to persuade her readers to look through the eyes of a smoker in a smoky world. King hung out with people who smoked even before he was born. Her mother started smoking when she was twelve and she started smoking when she was twenty-six. Since he started smoking, he has analyzed how non-smokers discriminate against him. Florence King expects everyone to be okay with smoking because that's what she was raised to do and was okay in her family. When King talked about how her mother smoked during her pregnancy and how she grew into a healthy child, she implies that smoking doesn't cause any health defects. She claims that since she wasn't born with any birth defects or a "low birth weight baby," no one else will. Just because one person was lucky enough to survive, doesn't mean everyone else will. King also says smoking is more pleasurable than sex. This says if you want pleasure in your life, smoke. This is not the case for everyone; however, it has a promising argument, different people find pleasure in different things. Not everyone needs sex or cigarettes to find the pleasures of life. Florence King states in her article that she believes that life should be savored rather than lengthened. Most people would disagree with her because they feel she should live a healthy life and take life one day at a time hoping to stay on Earth as long as possible. Others would agree with her that life should be lived without regrets. King doesn't care if cigarettes cut her life short; all she wants to do is live life the way she wants without people telling her how. By saying that smokers have the "right to die," but that nonsmokers have the right "not to die," he also puts nonsmokers in danger from smoking. This says that even non-smokers can be harmed by smoking and can cause death in any case. A letter to Jeremiah O'Leary read: "Smoke yourself to death, but please not me." By adding this in her article, the writer inserts the brutality of non-smokers. It makes readers believe that non-smokers will use violence and harsh words to stop smokers from smoking.