What is the purpose of this public service announcement? to praise people who have quit smoking already
to describe the illnesses caused by smoking
to remind people not to smoke because it affects others
to discourage people who want to start smoking

"night. no one was praying for the night to pass quickly. the stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes." explain the images included in the passage. how is the use of the image of night contradictory to how we might expect it to be used