Smoking – Injurious to Health…But

Smoking, Alcohol, Drugs all the NO-NO types. I too hate these in real life. It won’t help us in any way.

But many of us have some kind of infatuation with these.

When we look at those doing it, especially the actors/stars. Their style of holding the glass, taking a sip or the way they lit the cigar, make smoke circles in the air and etc.

If given an option, I would like to go for smoking. The whole process – the detailing from taking out the cigarette from the packet until throwing the butt. It’s an art to watch for.

But to see this art, you need to watch chain smokers; each one has their unique style.

Whether having a casual chat, or going alone for the smoke, the way they take out the cigarette, there is no rush at all.

They take it out one from the pack. Again no rush to put it in mouth and lit it.

They hold it for some time in the two fingers till the time they don’t finish their point or if alone they keep looking somewhere and not looking at the cigarette.

Then slowly take it to the mouth, just hold it in the lips, with literally no pressure of lips and just stick it there with the moisture of lips.

It won’t stop them from the talking; they do that with so much ease, with the cigarette in the mouth. That time the cigarette is dancing at the tune of words in an up-down motion.

Only comparison to the delicate way of holding cigarette in between the lips is to a tigress carrying their cubs in the mouth without hurting them.

Then slowly lit the cigarette. With the match stick or with the lighter – just lit it and then form a curve of the other hand’s palm to shield the lit flame, till it lit the cigarette and simultaneously take the first puff – a strong one.

Then throw the matchstick or extinguish the lighter flame. I have never seen the smokers unnecessarily wasting the match stick or lighter gas by playing with it.

Then slowly take a long, deep puff inside and making the face like – they are in deep thinking as if the world load is on their shoulder and they are the only saviours.

Then take it out from the mouth, hold it in between two fingers. Here too, holding it delicately, same way like holding it in the lips. It’s like supporting it between the two fingers so that it shouldn’t fall and not exactly hold it.

Then there is a wait, a long wait as the ‘time came to still’. A non-smoker, looking at the lit cigar must be thinking this wait is utter waste of money.

But “the way a sculptor hold on and takes time to look at his sculpt every now and then”, is not considered as waste of time, same way the time between puffs is not waste of money.

Also a gentle push-down every now and then to the filter so that the ash falls below.

While all this happening, smoking cigarette is not at all considered a task. The beauty of it is, it doesn’t disturb your talk with someone – serious, humorous or while performing any intricate activities.

In-fact it acts as a catalyst in whatever you are doing. [At least I think so].

These guys however busy they are takeout time for this activity. For them it’s an involuntary activity…like breathing. No one, whatever rush they are in, never forgets or avoids breathing, the same way they carry out this activity.

At the end, throw the butt. Stand there for a while and then slowly resume to their work.

The satisfaction on their faces is like they conquered the whole world and now returning back to their base with a triumph.

Wish I could too…

Disclaimer: personal view and not at all endorse any kind of addiction/habits.