Stephen King uses cigarettes and smoking as a symbol of self destruction. In Stephen King's short story the cigarettes and smoking were slowly destroying Morrison and his family. Morrison's actions were what determined the outcome of him quitting smoking. Cigarttes and smoking held his family's future. Smoking and cigarettes are like a discrete form of killing someone and, Stephen King use this indirect metaphor to form the concept of the ending of one's life and family voluntarily. When McCann says that he lost weight after gaining it, his facial gestures serve as an indication that he did not only do it for him but, for his family's well being as well. McCann's suspicious facial expression gave Morrison the impression that something