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From The Jakarta Chronicle

A friend of mine, was self professed social smoker. Having pulled to the smoker circle by his choice of friends, he admitted to smoke ever casualty, and only if there is another smoker friend abound. He refuse to be called a smoker, on the ground that he did not have any attachment to the item, although he admitted that he enjoyed smoking through and through.

Being asked what is the best time to smoke, he quickly answered,right after a meal, and when hanging out with his smoker friends. Do you smoke any particular brand ? I asked. He don’t have any preference, though he regularly smoked Marlboro Light Menthol, or Black Menthol, because those were his friends were smoking. He added then, that he started with Djie Sam Soe, the ultra heavy kretek preferred by Indonesia blue colar, and enjoy any kretek just as much as white cigarette. A fact, that he quickly pointed out to show that he was not the ussual smoker, because he really dont care about the taste of the smoke.

In different occasion,  I asked how many packs that he consumed a day. He proudly noted, that as social smoker, he never had a regular count on how many his consumption in a day. Naturally he kept a pack in his car, and several in his home, just in case the friends were coming over, and when the opportunity presented, he can smoke more than 10 in one haled. But again, he added, that he could go on a days without the cigarettes, and felt no impact when he have or have not. a fact that again he quickly pointed out that he is not an addict hence,  not an active smoker per fact.

But when the City announce a bylaw that prohibit smoking inside Jakarta’s building (and that means any non residential building), he was the one first who  showed the concern to the bylaw, noting the impracticality of it, ”No smoking in a pub ? that is just outrageous.” Concern aside, he also seriously more agitated that his friends about this prohibition.

I asked,”What’s the big deal, you can still smoke in your home ?” to which he replied, “No, I’m not smoker, hence I don’t smoke in my home, I only smoke when we are out, in the pub or resto, or some place.”

“So it’s good then, less opportunity, less smoke, you can actually be healthier.” I added. And to this he stoned for a while. I’m not sure what came to his thought when my sentence ended. Maybe, just maybe, it dawned upon him, that the pub, the friends, and the hangout were just an excuse to smoke, and that he actually a smoker, heavy or light, and that he just don’t have the gut to admit that he was addicted to the tobacco as much as his friends did.

In any case, he didn’t reply to my comment, and instead shrug his shoulder while pull the cigarette deep to his lung and breath it long and full toward the horizon.

This is just a teaser, wait for the full report soon !!!

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