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Advantages of Smoking
Kills Time
Absolutely.
There’s no doubt about it. Smoking gives you something to do with your hands and makes those dull hours in a day fly by.
I was once flying to South Africa when I was 19. I boarded a plane to Lisbon, and had to wait 18 hours there for the connection to SA.
It was lucky I smoked. Whiling away those hours smoking and reading one of those airport thrillers in which nothing happens until the last page.
I don’t know what I would do these days in an airport. Either drink heavily, or spend my time gazing into my phone trying to avoid the name ELON MUSK.
It Looks Cool
Undeniably.
Think of Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Or Robert De Niro chain-smoking his way through Casino. Or Sean Connery in Dr No when he lights up at the poker table, and for the first time utters the immortal line: “Bond, James Bond.”
Imagine instead.
“Bond, James Bond — just a minute I’ve got a notification.”
That would have killed the Bond franchise stone dead.
It Kills You
Good.
