Fumando Meu Cafe
October 31st 2009 03:26
It comes in various forms - percolated, instant, espresso, milked up. Provided there is an environment for coffee beans to grow, people all over the earth will be consuming the black drink in which a whole civilization could be based on.
Maybe, instead of could be, I should say is.
Nicotine also comes in many shapes and sizes - lozenges, gum, patches, cigars and cigarettes. And it could be argued that one substance would not be so popular without the other. But then that will be mixing popular theory with the truth that most of us who use them are addicted to one and not the other.
My source of inspiration for most things I have written, I almost regret to admit, have formed over a coffee and a cigarette. Or to put it in more abstract terms, while I have been smoking my coffee.
It is only natural to assume that nicotine replacement therapy really does 'replace' smoking. In my experience, this assumption has been proven true. Sucking or chomping out the nicotine in a lozenge is definitely beginning to become a habit, albeit not as addictive as smoking in itself. Therefore, one could say it is not the nicotine that is the addictive element in cigarettes. But at the same time no-one would be caught dead saying they smoke for the cockroach repellant (RE: homegrown hydroponic marijuana) or rat poison.
It all comes down to the method in which we take in our chemical of choice. Lozenges go straight to the brain, while smoking tends to get soaked up in the bloodstream through the lungs. I guess the method of consumption mirrors one's level of yuppy-ness: straight to the top, or mingle around with lower elements.
Smoking coffee is a social lubricant, just like imbibing alcohol and caking one's teeth with coca leaves. Just in a more socially acceptable manner.
Hold up, it is still socially acceptable, right? Sure Australia has its "Sin tax" on it as if it were a legalised form of street-priced opium. But like alcohol, it has a history with us that will not be erased with a few fell swoops of the governmental guillotine.
Now excuse me, my dad has just called me up for company with his afternoon coffee. "To the cafe, batboy"
Maybe, instead of could be, I should say is.
Nicotine also comes in many shapes and sizes - lozenges, gum, patches, cigars and cigarettes. And it could be argued that one substance would not be so popular without the other. But then that will be mixing popular theory with the truth that most of us who use them are addicted to one and not the other.
My source of inspiration for most things I have written, I almost regret to admit, have formed over a coffee and a cigarette. Or to put it in more abstract terms, while I have been smoking my coffee.
It is only natural to assume that nicotine replacement therapy really does 'replace' smoking. In my experience, this assumption has been proven true. Sucking or chomping out the nicotine in a lozenge is definitely beginning to become a habit, albeit not as addictive as smoking in itself. Therefore, one could say it is not the nicotine that is the addictive element in cigarettes. But at the same time no-one would be caught dead saying they smoke for the cockroach repellant (RE: homegrown hydroponic marijuana) or rat poison.
It all comes down to the method in which we take in our chemical of choice. Lozenges go straight to the brain, while smoking tends to get soaked up in the bloodstream through the lungs. I guess the method of consumption mirrors one's level of yuppy-ness: straight to the top, or mingle around with lower elements.
Smoking coffee is a social lubricant, just like imbibing alcohol and caking one's teeth with coca leaves. Just in a more socially acceptable manner.
Hold up, it is still socially acceptable, right? Sure Australia has its "Sin tax" on it as if it were a legalised form of street-priced opium. But like alcohol, it has a history with us that will not be erased with a few fell swoops of the governmental guillotine.
Now excuse me, my dad has just called me up for company with his afternoon coffee. "To the cafe, batboy"
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