Monday, February 25, 2008

cigerette funeral

Why does the outside of a funeral home always have more ash in the ashtrays and smoke lingering in the air than a cigar club? The obvious and truthfull awnser is that a death makes you lungs pray for punishment. Not any kind of punishment only punishment from a cigarette, pipe, or maybe even a hookah, the lungs however do not want anything to do with cigar smoke because that is generally a celebatory smoke and a funeral is not a celebration by anymeans. With that in mind you must remember with such a fragile state of mind nothing calms the nerves like a lit stick of tobacco.
There is something about the smoke filling your mouth as you take a long deep drag of the cigarette that releaves the pressure of a lost loved one like nothing else can. There is something about smoke seaping from your open mouth slowly as you watch the smoke eratically dance higher and higher in the air that slows the tears. There is something about keeping you mind on how potentially cool you look smoking a cigarette puff by puff, drag by drag, toke by toke that keeps your mind from focusing on the death of someone you knew and loved.
Maybe the appeal of smoking at a funeral is the appeal of easing the social akwardness. When the crowd is standing around in silence with gravity taking its effect as tears drip down everyonce face then a smoke my ease the akwardness. Keeping you mind on whether or not you should say something or continue to look at the ground in grief and remorse. A smoke gives you something to do when there is nothing to do.
Its a curious statistic how many people start smoking at a funeral or around the time of a death as compared to starting the tobaco adiction under normal circumstances. It appears to me that stress causes more people to start or return to smoking than a just a lust for tobaco with no stress. Maybe that is a common sense stat, but maybe it isn't. I really don't no i am just trying to write 400 words for proffesor ass face (ass face equals two words).
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