@ehBeth,
It's interesting how different people are!
I NEVER smoked at work, and mostly people who were not house-mates or close friends could not believe I smoked.
I agree re the jazz......I used to see music as streamers of different coloured light blending and twining together...in the way a smoke stream from a single cigarette smoked by a restrained smoker does.
It's also funny how differently people smoke.....there are supremely elegant smokers.....who sort of sip at their cigarettes, and make beautiful smoke streams, and hold their cigarettes with grace and style.....then there are the manic puffers who look like greedy children stuffing lollies in their mouths until their cheeks bulge, and their eyes pop.
My first year uni English tutor was my favourite smoker.
He would have, perhaps, two cigarettes per tutorial...and he was a delightful looking man, very elegant.....and kind....he would sit back thoughtfully and listen to us....leaning back elegantly in his chair....with his slow smoke stream making lovely patterns against the windows.
My boss at my first professional job was one of the desperatel greedy ones..... (before smoking at work was blessedly banned......she made the whole office so smoky it was hard to see if you were of the height where the smoke settled (I was fortunately above this stratum).....it was common to see her with a lit cigarette in her mouth, another in her hand, another still going in her ashtray.....and she puffed so constantly and frenetically that she looked like a hypermanic steam train in a vastly speeded up film.
