Disclaimer: smoking is a nasty habit, and it’s better to never start than to try to quit.
That being said, it’s pretty crazy how smoking cigarettes brings people together. I’m very reluctant to talk to people I don’t know, but if I go out for a smoke and I see a few other people smoking outside, they instantly became my new best friends.
I don’t really smoke anymore, but the smoking ban in the UK (no smoking indoors from 2007) created the concept of the smoking area outside a pub/club and some of my best friendships in life ultimately started in that Petri dish
A smoking area outside anywhere in the northwest of the UK about 10-15 years ago was just peerless in calibre
Disclaimer: smoking is a nasty habit, and it’s better to never start than to try to quit.
That being said, it’s pretty crazy how smoking cigarettes brings people together. I’m very reluctant to talk to people I don’t know, but if I go out for a smoke and I see a few other people smoking outside, they instantly became my new best friends.
I don’t really smoke anymore, but the smoking ban in the UK (no smoking indoors from 2007) created the concept of the smoking area outside a pub/club and some of my best friendships in life ultimately started in that Petri dish
A smoking area outside anywhere in the northwest of the UK about 10-15 years ago was just peerless in calibre
Smoking is seen as a communal spiritual event in most Native American cultures.
TIL I’m not an introvert. I’m just healthier.
When I was in highschool (just before they banned public smoking in IL) the kids that smoked all hung out in the same place outside.