As someone who has never smoked a cigarette, I have to say that this was the best piece I've ever written on it. Your outsider perspective helps you perfectly capture something I've never understood. My parents smoke, my brothers smoke, lots of my friends smoke, but I have never felt compelled to even try. You explained so many angles of smoking....I'm just stunned, I really don't know what else to say.
Doesn't make me want to start though. It makes it seem even more insidiously evil.
