Smoking is Injurious to Health
'Why do you need to smoke? I mean always', said Harold. I smiled and looked at the warning scrolled on the packet: Smoking is injurious to health. The half burned cigarette was dangling from my lips while I leisurely leaned against a wall, a pose I assumed almost 20 times a day. ‘It doesn’t say whose health’, I said nonchalantly. I needed cigarettes as much as I needed Harold. Harold was my friend for last 15 years or more I am not sure as I had stopped counting. Friendship like cigarette settles down with time, the initial kicks and excitement you feel when you ignite it for the first time gives way to layers and layers of warmth, ash in case of cigarettes, which settles down in your physical system. Friends become a habit, sublime in their presence but conspicuous in their absence. We were a group of 7 friends: Harold, Tim, Esther, Andria, Henry, Luke and me, Sith. We went to the same college, landed in jobs in the same city where our college was and have been tog...