Have started smoking recently, been doing this everytime before I smoke because people around me does it
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It’s called packing or tamping. It’s totally unnecessary, as your cigarettes are already packed. In a blind smoke, you very likely won’t be able to tell the difference. It just makes you look like a cigarette junkie.
Unlike others and their dire warning about smoking, you’re a grown-ass adult and can make decisions for yourself. I realized at a way later age than I should have that we as a society are so inundated with this blind rhetoric that “smoking is bad, don’t smoke”, indoctrinated with it at such a young age, that we never question why people start smoking to begin with. We all know smoking is bad, and yet, we pick up that cigarette for the first time, anyway. Why? I’m not a habitual smoker, I do enjoy an occasional smoke, though my vices are cigars and pipes.
What most non-smokers cannot comprehend, because they’ve likely never tried (and it’s not their fault), is that smokers can like smoking.
And non-smokers also cannot understand how for some smoking can become a necessity, tied to one’s socioeconomic status (you shop at convenience stores, a marker of where you stand, and I know that life myself). Most habitual smoking is done by the lowest economic tiers of our society. No one ever questions that, either – they just accost them with blind rhetoric without really examining what’s going on.
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