Smoking is a bad habit Do you know this setting? Having smoked a cigarette and having put the cigarette butt in the ash tray. And the butt is still burning. And there are ten other butts in the ash tray which are dead. And you try to find the one which is burning. And you cannot find it. This can be a real nightmare if you are in the wrong mood. In that case I cover the ashtray to suffocate the butt. And it works. A fire cannot burn without consunming oxygene. Sometimes the knowledge of natural science can be useful. Thirteen years of bloody school were not completely useless.

Another smoker's experience I like to tell you. Infinitesimal smoking. You have finished your packet of cigarettes or your tobacco. It would be too much of a hassle to buy any more cigarettes. But you have got cigarette paper. What you do is you take the finished cigarette butts and squeeze them to collect the tobacco which is left. And you can roll another couple of cigarettes of it. When those cigarettes are finished some tobacco is left and you can roll another one...

I take a transatlantic flight. Smoking is prohibited on these flights. I arrive on an American airport. No smoking again. But there is a crowded room somewhere full of smoke. I cannot distinguish the faces of the people as there is too much smoke. I light the cigarette I have dreamt of for ten hours. And the taste of the cigarette is such a deception. My body needs the nicotine but the taste is so disgusting. I smoke another three cigarettes and the last one tastes ok again.

I had stopped smoking more than one year ago. But recently I have seriously restarted again. In the beginnimng I had one cigarette per month, then one per week, then two or three per week. Then it was one almost every night. Then I smoked every day but never before 6 pm. Then I started smoking in the office after 3 pm. Then after lunch. That is where I am now. I do not smoke before midday. But I smoke more than ten cigarettes per day. I am looking forward to my last cigarette again. Like in this New York movie by Wayne Wang co-written by Paul Auster. Who was it again who wanted to smoke his last cigarette? Jim Jarmush? Lou Reed was cool as I remember.

P.S. I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE SOME MORE ANSWERS ON MY BEST SONG QUESTION TWO POSTS DOWN. I KNOW IT'S HARD BUT THAT'S LIFE! P.P.S. Thank you Absintheur for mentioning my question in your blog. And thanks Phil and Starchild Starfinder for the answers. Don't you have a favourite song Absintheur?

ILM thread I have contributed to recently: When did music cease being furniture? I love the title of that thread. And Dr.C. has got a very decent taste of music. But our tastes just do not overlap 100%. Gottseidank.