There are numerous reasons as to why people smoke or start to smoke, it ranges from- ‘everybody else was doing it’, ‘its cool’, ‘wanted to try new things in life /* why not castration or bungee jumping then??*/ ’, some victimized answers like ‘I was very sad after she left me’, ‘there was no other option’, my personal favorite ‘I didn’t have a habit of sitting in one place for long periods of time, so how can a person deal with stress?’/* sigh!, tears in my eyes, I could wail at your sad puppy story!*/ and there are even some vague answers like ‘just like that’, or some reverse psychology answers ‘why do you eat?’ /*except that from eating, you don’t risk KILLING someone or yourself*/.
Fine I don’t have a problem with human chimneys, but actually I do. I am the guy walking you’ll when you are indulging yourself. Do know that you STINK after you go and relive yourself; it gives people 1 more reason to hate you. The only fag-gang member that drew amazement was a 30 something lady /* a woman empowered specimen*/ who held a cigarette between her lips and signaled her colleague to light it as both of them exited the office building, while my friend whispered “call center!”
Something even more mysterious than ‘the force’ exists between them /*the fag-gang*/. The fact that they have nothing in common except smoking doesn’t matter or maybe it’s all that matters. They’ll relate to SRK and roadside bidi smoking sweeper, at the same time. Its more than a conversation piece, they practically have a club. All Sanjay Gupta movies are hit and ‘No Smoking’ deserves no less than an Oscar. It’s surprising how many people from different backgrounds you’ll know if you fag, and the numbers keep going up. They share their misadventures of the ciggy kind, like how a guy rubbed his hand in his arm-pit to get rid of the stench /*yes, I know they are gifted*/.
Hookahs are a different story all together. Those who indulge will explain you in detail the entire process to conclude that it is like breathing chocolate/strawberry/godknowswhat flavored air. For an hour they’ll feel like the nizam of Hyderabad to top it all, a single hookah is shared between 3-5 guys /*which qualifies as group kissing*/. This stuff isn’t cheap either.
Consider this simple math/*the amount is much higher if it’s an expensive cigarette brand or the no of fags per day is more*/, let’s say that a guy smokes 4 cigarettes a day each of Rs. 2.50.
Meaning everyday he spends Rs.10 killing himself, a bit.
365 days in a year, that is Rs. 3650 up in smoke, literally! And that not even charity!
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