A cigarette is not something that one smokes merely for pleasure, or due to a bad habit that reflects a flaw in one's personality.
A cigarette is not something that one smokes merely for pleasure, or due to a bad habit that reflects a flaw in one's personality.
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Even if that's true, a connoisseur understands the myriad other reasons for cigarette smoking.
To enumerate: Stress Suppliers pissing you off? Customers bugging you? Shit hitting the fan? A quick fag is a great stress buster. So is yoga, but this is quicker and you don't have to do headstands.
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Thinking Stuck at your desk? Thoughts not flowing? Step out and light up in the fresh air, it invariably fires up the thought process again.
Coolness Worked out body, cool denims, fitted shirt, styled hair, languorously smoking.
Polyester pants, faded shirt, oily hair, general loser-type personality, sucking hajmola.
Please note the difference. Which stereotype would you want to be?
Solo timepass Waiting for friends at the cinema? Light up, look cool, have something to do, be checked out by the opposite sex.
Alternatively, walk around shiftily with your hands in your pockets and be prepared to seem like a black marketeer or a letch, possibly both.
DigestiveWe eat the strangest of things nowadays. Nothing digests our multi-cuisine diets better
than a post-meal ciggie, it settles the stomach and kills germs.
Hanging out with the crowd Subjective research between two groups of smokers and non-smokers has shown that smokers have creative, intelligent and certainly more fun conversations. Smoking encourages lasting and meaningful friendships.
Two mind-altering and character-building experiences that non-smokers will never have the last cigarette you smoke before you give up the dirty habit and the first one you smoke after falling off the wagon.
A sense of relief, a little regret, happy memories and the opportunities that lie ahead.
If this article sounds biased, against conventional medical wisdom, Neanderthal-like in thought, that's fine, it's meant to be.
