TRULY REMARKABLE stories of closet smoking! I had NO IDEA!!! I have to believe that closet smoking for years on end, probably being in a somewhat chronic state of nicotine (and other ciggie chemical-additive withdrawal----constantly----is very, very rough!
To me, it just goes to show:
1.) the power of peer pressure
2.) discrimination (against smokers) is REALLY BIG in the workplace, apparently and even if the accused is abiding by workplace policy! (This effectively leads right into institutional discrimination against smokers by employers due to insurance costs. Apparently, there are some that could care less if they financially RUIN YOU if you smoke cigarettes, which of course, should be illegal and punished, imnsho....). I don't consider myself to be naive, but I really did not realize how serious that the economic discrimination against smokers really is. After all, they're still LEGAL, are they not? You have an awful situation if you are a smoker, and you happen to work in the American workplace these days.....
3.) the power of the 'cigarette police' (they are REAL, and they are WATCHING! Why can't people just mind their own G-DAMN BUSINESS???...)
4.) the power of cigarette addiction (we all know this...)
5.) how truly remarkable the positive effects of the ecig revolution (and it sure does look like a revolution) really are.
WOW, folks.....keep these stories coming. They are really fascinating to me, and probably many others!
And, kudos to you all for the extra degree of difficulty you have had to endure to quit the stankies!