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It can provide a much-needed quick hit of neurochemicals and can be a way to meet people. Same reasons people have always had cigarettes.
I did a report in college for my sociology/psychology classes that dealt with smokers vs. non-smokers. I wanted to see if it was easier or harder to break into a group of people you didn't know while smoking or not.
I found it was a LOT easier to break into a group of people if you ask for a light, or offer a cigarette than if you just walked up and tried talking without one. It's almost like you already have something in common so it breaks that first bit of awkwardness. I tried it in a few different venues (parks, a lake, the ocean, bars, concerts etc.) and it was pretty spot on.
I found it was a LOT easier to break into a group of people if you ask for a light, or offer a cigarette than if you just walked up and tried talking without one. It's almost like you already have something in common so it breaks that first bit of awkwardness. I tried it in a few different venues (parks, a lake, the ocean, bars, concerts etc.) and it was pretty spot on.
Yea.. It's because smokers have been demonized by the right and the left. The right wants to outlaw it for health reasons and the left wants to tax it to fund their welfare and set an example of how bad smoking is to the public.
Smokers are a demonized group in society because people (on this thread even) want to control other people. They have nothing better to do in their lives than preach to other people about a stupid cigarette. Do they not already know smoking increases their health risks? So shut up, stop the preaching, they already know, and they're not going to listen to a control freak.
Also, these authoritarians on the left and right are usually very judgmental people, thus other people don't want to socialize with them.
Thus smokers know, that if you smoke, you probably know about how crazy these authoritarians are, and are more of a let live kind of person that just wants to enjoy their time on earth.
Thus smokers know, that if you smoke, you probably know about how crazy these authoritarians are, and are more of a let live kind of person that just wants to enjoy their time on earth.
This is why a woman who smokes is instantly more attractive to me. The woman won't always meet my expectations, but statistically, it's a great filter, no pun intended, to apply to make sure it's only the cool chicks you try to get to know.
I have never smoked. Ever. Not because I'm dead against it or anything. I actually am against a ban on smoking in bars here in South Dakota. But when I was a kid, my dad would haul us around on long trips pretty much every weekend. He was a rural mail carrier and smoker, so the car was always dusty. He would smoke on these trips, and usually have the heat on too high for us. Basically there was an intersection 9 miles out of town that he would stop so my sister and I could throw up. Just a horrible combination of environmental factors. So the thought of smoking never crossed my mind.
Not gonna lie, still makes you look cool, like a rebel. It can be a turn off to girls, but a lot of times they smoke more than males. I'm an on again off again smoker at age 21. Usually smoke for about a month and a half then quit for a few months, just starting an off again cycle. I smoke until I get sick of it. I start dipping then it takes me a week to chew the first can, by then I'm sick of that, then don't need to light up for a while.
Some said ten dollars a pack? That's an insane price, I pay about $4.30 for premium brands (marlboro and Camel), some brands are as low $2.00.
My guess is that he/she doesn't want to look like the average American
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