That 5 mins high. When ur heart starts racing, blood gets pumping, head seems clearer and u get a feeling that everything is all right? U can almost swear on a moment of inspiration there. There, done. 5 mins and ur back on earth.
The thrills. Ur clubbing with ur friends.. the ambience.. music.. drinks.. cigarettes...u cant be sitting at the bar without something to do..ok.. it feels cool, right? Fine. U find some best advertisers here! Nicotine=erotika. Plus, its a 'forbidden' thing (wasn't the Father of man the biggest weakling?).. hence forbidden is always a turn on! Now, hold a cigarette in ur hand and light it up..or hv someone fire u up! Something psychologically powerful about that, ..right guys? You take a deep puff... in the midst of conversation.. thinking..eyes lowered.. looking very intellectual.. and u flick the ashes .. while ur listener waits attentively..and u know that guy is watching... then you come up with a punch line! Now replay the whole scene without a cigarette.. stage without prop.. anticlimax! Hey, life's a stage!
(Btw, remember a few years back some anti smoking campaign came up with the idea of limp cigarettes.. which self respecting man would want to be caught dead holding that?!)
The dependability. And then u r waking up and first thing u do is to reach for a cigarettee.. u seat on ur toilet seat, u need a bowel movement fast....smoke.. then u hv ur coffee.. alternate with smoke.. u off to work.. u hv time for another smoke in ur car...u stressed at work.. out u go for a smoke.. bonding time even with other smokers.. women who are smokers bond better with male colleagues, they say.. and some swear u lose weight because-ur-metabolism-gets-a-kick thing.. too.. that is when u smoke instead of eating.. (a packet of smoke is an average meal price by the way...)
All these are just too much to lose aren't they, against premature ageing, lung complications, ozone depletion or even just plain waste of money?! Right. Let the idiots worry about that.
That's why intelligent people smoke.
