On My Smoking

We’ve been talking a good deal about ganja recently, and I have to admit I have been very tempted to give it another shot. I was quite the smoker in college, but later it was easy to give up, because with almost no one smoking it around me, there was never any temptation. But it [...]

I Smoke, Therefore I Am

I have often had to defend my attitude towards the no-smoking law, and yet again a post made in response to mine has got me writing. Why do I bother? Because I believe in what I have said, or say about Ramadoss’ diktat. And I would not really go back on that no matter how [...]

To Smoke or Not To Smoke

India has done it again. Smoking has been banned from public places, predictably from the birthday of Gandhi. They imply cigarettes only I think, because the “smoking” of Christians, their homes and churches, continues unabated through the nation.
On a less irreverent note, with all of India’s cries over equality, this new law just proves that [...]

On Smoking…

I smoked my first cigarette when I was 15. It was a Gold Flake Kings stolen from my father. I chose that because it was convenient to steal, and it was cooler than the Wills Flake that my brother was smoking at the time.

Looking back I started smoking because my father and brother did, and [...]