Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Holding cigarettes

I wonder why people hold joints different from cigarettes? Cigarettes are typically wedged between forefinger and middle finger, while it seems joints are mostly held securely between thumb and both other fingers. Is it because when people get stoned, they tend to drop it if they don't pay close attention?

Pardon my ignorance. I haven't smoked any cigarettes for many years, I quit when I was twelve.  And I've never been stoned. I tried pot in tea once, and it didn't seem to affect me at all. Maybe I didn't do it right, or the dose I got was calculated to a smaller person, I dunno.

OK... I like to say "I quit when I was twelve", it's funny. But of course I'd only been doing it for a couple of weeks, in secret, with a friend. But when I felt that it could become a serious habit, I got so scared I quit right away, this was mid-seventies, after horror stories of their health danger were common.

It used to be cool. James Bond famously apparently smoked 60 a day! Very macho! I wonder how can you do that in his job? Being a secret agent must take a lot of hiding and being inconspicuous, and spouting smoke and leaving butts 15 hours a day must get in the way, one would think. ...But of course, being fictional helps. It also helps with the being in such great shape despite smoking that much!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Could that be because most joint smokers are not smokers of habit?

But I also know potheads who are sooo afraid to be "outed" (idiots) that they will go to great lengths to avoid staining their fingers while smoking their beloved pot!

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

You think most aren't? Habitual smokers? Could be.

Didn't know it stains. What color?

My mother almost chain-smoked cigarettes (about twenty a day), and in late years of her life, her white hair was actually yellow in front from nicotine!

Tim Rabideau said...

A neighbour of mine when I was a kid was like that. Her hair was yellowed from it, and her fingers. It was really quite disgusting. Between her and my grandmother (who rolled her own, which were even more heinous than the ones you buy), I knew I'd never be tempted. I did try dope but while it did affect me and was quite pleasant, it's supposed to be even worse for the lungs than tobacco.

sukiho said...

convention, no different from drinking wine and beer from different glasses

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

I've heard that stem glasses were invented in order for the hand not to warm up the wine. But then many people (most?) hold the glass itself, not the stem.

Anonymous said...

I'll have to watch Sideways again and see how they do it.

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

I liked the saucy barmaid, but I'm not sure I could watch that movie twice. Pretty good, but it was about drinking wine. :-)

Anonymous said...

Admittedly it's not a movie I'd pop if I had a bunch of guys over... I thought it was funny, and not really about wine anyway.

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

True enough. And not a bad comedy.

As was Bottle Shock. A bit rare, but I got it since it had Eliza Dushku in it. Good flick.