Cigarette Smoking

Smoking cigarettes looks good. But no one dares to say so. We know much about the science of smoking and the customs of smokers. Tobacco is one of the most thoroughly investigated plants in the world, religiously quantified in innumerable questionings by universities, different agencies and manufacturers.

We should know what stands behind a phenomenon which has been very popular all over the world in the course of many centuries.

Forty-six million Americans smoke, according to the National Center for Health Statistics data. This happens despite the knowledge that smoking causes fatal illness, it is disgusted and, in the nearest future, will be prohibited everywhere including private homes in case the children are present there.

Smoking cigarettes is necessary after a meal, during the process of a meal, while drinking, driving, during a walk, after sex, after a discussion, before going to bed, first thing with a cup of coffee in the morning and during work breaks.

It is cool to smoke in solitude; a feeling of individuality can appear, and sudden opportunities for meditation can emerge. It is marvelously to smoke with others; widespread censure of the habit provokes a sense of solidarity among those who smoke cigs and tobacco anyway.

Smoking cigarettes indoors is an unusual luxury, just in the lodgments of the extremely tolerant. Being obliged to smoke outdoors intensifies the natural flavor of forbidden fruit.