My New Hobby

I've never smoked cigarettes in my life and at 24 years old, I think it's about time I gave it a shot. After witnessing all the advantages of smoking, I think I would be stupid NOT to pick up smoking.

I don't work with many smokers but the ones I do have it so good. Once an hour, they get to call their friends and go meet up for a smoke for about 15 minutes. I've observed these people outside, laughing, chatting, relaxed, just puffing away their little break. After seeing people leave every hour on the hour, I'm starting to get pretty jealous. If you put in 8 hours of work a day, your getting 2 hours off just for smoking cigarettes while the non-smoking suckers like myself are sitting inside doing their work. I've tried to create my own cigarette break to compensate but it just doesn't work. I'll go to the bathroom, maybe get a drink of water but that only takes around 3 minutes, clearly cheating me out of the other 12 if I had a lung dart in my mouth.

I guess one of the only disadvantages I can see is that I might lose 20 years of my life. I've taken that into consideration and cigarette smoking still makes sense. Firstly, who wants to live from the ages of 80-100? You're old and can't go very far, the show Golden Girls suddenly becomes the best television program, and quite often you start to get that old person smell. Then start pondering this thought, you can bank those 20 years of your life right now with the 2 hours a day you don't work and are taking cigarette breaks. I much rather enjoy my time while I'm young than 50+ years down the road.

I can use a new hobby and the advantages of taking up smoking are just too great to resist. I may not like the taste and to smoke in NYC in the winter you need to be partially suicidal, but it just makes sense to start sucking them down. Who's with me?