by Mustaffa Kamal

Created on: April 17, 2008

The answer to this question is of course and a resounding yes. People do buy cigarettes even if the price of cigarettes burnt a hole in your pocket if you asked me. Mankind main urge after sex is too smoke in my opinion. Why I've said because I am a smoker. And tell you why, for if there is a nuclear holocaust or famine the essentials that I must have and the one that I must ensure with ample supply is tones of cigarettes.

The sensations and the joy of smoking are pure and truly magic. The puff and the inhale of cigarettes make it an unforgettable experience for us smokers. I tend to admit it as although it is a sinful, filthy and dirty habit, the joy it gives in unforgettable and only smokers would understand. Try observed at airport lounges around the world that provides smoking rooms. An instant craving and urge guides us to the promise land and we smoke together. It matters little if you don't have a lighter, many hands will offer to light up your cigarettes.

Cigarettes are at its cheapest at duty free shops at airports. We tend to buy a few cartons of cigarettes at duty free shops for friends and relatives. Who says we don't buy cigarettes anymore?

Occasionally, there would be one or two people that will get on your nerve asking for a stick to satisfy their craving. This normally will be your friends or office colleagues. Sometimes we obliged and sometimes we don't. All sorts of excuses will made and created. Among the common one are I'm out of cigarettes, down to my last one, left it at home and others. This is to let them know that you want to enjoy your cigarettes and don't want to disturb. But normally for me, I would oblige and give them my cigarettes, as sharing is giving. As the saying goes the more the merrier. Also, we smokers must band and stick together.

Smokers all over world are an extinct and dying species. Countless country around the world is following Ireland leads which ban smoking totally either in a pubs, workplaces, schools and public places. France which is traditionally is a smoking haven country is not spared. As results a tight squeeze has been imposed to us smoker. We are treated as pariah, black sheep or even worse as criminals. We are just enjoying we is best to us that is smoking, is that wrong?

But as a true blue smoker, I hold truth to the saying that is once a smoker forever a smoker until death does us apart or we choose to repent our sins. We are like a band of brothers. It is like love at first sight.

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