Dante, Roman poet and politician, depicts a hell as a dark, miserable, torturous realm, where no hope or joy exists. In Dante's masterpiece, "The Inferno," the real hell fails to accommodate human inventions and developing technology. The existing hell soon becomes outdated and obsolete. This is why Hell is a constantly evolving place. It grows and morphs to update itself to stay up to speed with the world above it. Modern Hell is set up in Dante's classic format of nine concentric circles. The sins get progressively worse as you go further inward with the center containing the most sinful souls of all. The vices in today's Hell have bee revised in order to accommodate a world of modern sinners, for some options to sin were not available to the people of the past.
             The sins of the first three circles are sins of ignorance, similar to Dante's original version. These people were unaware of their sins when they committed them because it was normal behavior in their everyday lives. The first circle contains those who sinned against the environment, either through driving cars, using non-recycled paper, or littering. They are forced to live in a place void of plant and animal life and they breathe thick polluted air that is very similar to air in Los Angeles today, which gags them with every breath. This punishment may seem a bit extreme for not being friendly to the environment, but by modern Hell standards, it is extremely light.
             The next circle is for the substance abusers, such as smokers, alcoholics and drug addicts. The smokers are eternally damned to always have cigarettes and a book of matches, but just before the poor soul has a chance to light his/her cigarette the wind rises from the bowels of hell and blows out their match. No matter how they move or try to block the tortuous gusts of air, the flame is always blown out. For the alcoholics, their punishment is to be stuck in a bar in Utah that only serves virgin drinks and ...