Celebratory And Part-Time Smoking

Many years ago you'd see a skit on television of the anxious expectant father pacing outside of the delivery room in the hospital when the nurse pops her head out the door and says, "Mr. Jones you have a baby girl or boy" The happy newly minted father pulls out a box of cigars and starts handing them out to any and all to celebrate. Then everyone lights the stogies in bliss and the smoke commences to fall out of their mouths. The entire incident was sweet dreams back them, now the mere thought of this is a nightmare.

Nowadays smoking is considered as a faux pas, next to being overweight this is a bane to society and those people are ostracized on a daily basis by the powers that be. But what of the people who only smoke on their special or other special occasions like New Years? Are they the same as the daily smoker or perhaps the person who smokes 3 packs a day. What of the persons who identify themselves as part-time smokers are they like those cantankerous, ugly yellow teeth people portrayed in those bogeyman anti smoking ads on television.

Some believe that the cigar chomping politicians who enacted these draconian anti smoking laws are still chomping at the bit, pulling on their phallic symbol somewhere in the cracks, far away from the maddening crowds and inquiring eye; the ultimate revenge of the hypocrite, you don't I will.

The two types of sometime smokers who have been identified are part-time and celebratory smokers. The part-timers are a subset of the smoking population who maintain that they are not regular smokers. They have been reported as mysterious because what really is part-time? Very little data has been accumulated on the mysterious group. www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2003/the-mystery-of-part-time.html

The celebratory smokers are just like the new father in the delivery room, he smokes cigars for special occasions. The insurance companies maintains that a nonsmoker is a cigar (cigarettes are excluded) such and such a time a year with no traceable nicotine in their blood. For a full listing of who different insurance companies consider nonsmokers go to http://www.madisonbrokerage.com/resources/underwriting/celebratory_cigar_usage_nonsmoker_rates.htm

However the Centers For Disease Control maintains that any smoking part-time or celebratory is just as bad as regular nonstop smoking. Hence there is are no health benefits derived from any smoking according to the agency.

Lest we forget that nicotine is a drug and a very addictive one. Thus if people are having difficulty kicking the cigarette habit they are addicted to nicotine because cigarettes are saturated with it. Person who work in the Addiction Treatment and/or are recovering addicts have said that nicotine is tougher than heroin, cocaine etc. to kick.

So much so, that the dynamics of the hard core addict and the cigarette smoker are about same when it comes to addiction. Both go through the same addictive cycle: Physical, Emotional and Psychological Dependency. But cigarettes are legal and readily available and are socially acceptable up to a point, though nowadays you are ostracized for being a smoker.

These part-time and celebratory smokers especially the former are in denial about their addictions as all addicts are. Most don't want to own up to their chemical dependency. The cigar smokers have more of a psychological and emotional dependency are in denial too.

In reality you are either pregnant or not; you can't be a little pregnant when it suits you. This may be the case with smoking you either smoke or you don't whether you are part-time or celebratory