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A great deal of huffing and puffing For as long as people have enjoyed a smoke there have been others who have tried to stop them, says Alexander Waugh

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20041121
Author:By Alexander Waugh

SMOKING IS a wonderful thing; even quite unattractive people look sexy doing it - and they don't just look good, they actually feel good too.

As the smoker opens his packet, lights the tip, draws his first drag, as he floats the cigarette to and from his lips, whether he is alone or in company, he will find himself at the centre of a ritual halo of his own glorious exhalation - an independent godlike figure, self-assured, inwardly interesting, wise, relaxed and useful.

J.M. Barrie believed that smoking made him clever while his contemporary, Charles Kingsley, extolled tobacco as "a lone man's ...

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