There is no smoke without a fire, they say. Where cigarettes are concerned, the entire nicotine issue is up in smoke again. If actor John Abraham recently released his latest dark-comedy, No Smoking; the Badshah of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan was slapped with a legal notice for smoking in public.
The government too is intent on getting stricter about cigarettes and who smokes them and where. Amidst all this, the girls at St Teresa’s college in Cochin have sworn not to marry anyone who smokes.
While our smoking readers do NOT promote cigarettes or smoking in anyway, they are hurt that women should find them less eligible. “Why hate the smokers? Hate the cigarettes, not the ones who smoke,” said Drish, 28. When asked about their comments on how kissing a smoker is like kissing an ashtray, Abhijeet, 31 said, “I really wouldn’t know, I have never kissed an ashtray before.”
For Deepti, a non-smoker, non-drinker, I-am-not-going-to-stand-around-smokers, her decision is clear, “I don’t want to passive smoke and I don’t want to kiss an ashtray.” Prema feels that not marrying one smoker can perhaps make others quit, it sounds like a good idea.
What’s your take: It makes sense to hate the smoke or to hate the smoker?
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