The Symbolism of Smoking

The planning commission is deciding to cut raise import duties on all smoking-products in order to magnify
good changes into the society brought about by the anti smoking law. However, the subtle, yet stable,
symbolism between smoking cigars and pipes and a few virgin heights of success is untouched of any
literature or epistolary yet. This article tries to fill this gap by drawing out a few such metaphors and pay the
author's humble reverence to smoke and cigars, as the all new anti smoking law seems to make all smoking
products, things of the past.

Keywords : René Magritte, Pennsylvania's law in effect from 11 September, Cuban Crafters.

A lbeit, it's hard to pull out any order of symbolism from the painting titled "The Treachery of Images" by the
Belgium artist René Magritte's, who was celebrated in mid 1950s for his fantastic imagery and incongruous
juxtaposition, that exhibit's a semi-arched pipe but carries a script 'Leci n'est pas une pipe'-translated as "This is
not a pipe", there is, then again, a rich anthology of great emblematic combinations of sovereign pipes, cigars
(informally) and tobacco, with some of the world's feted and incredible human fables, that surely translates to
much higher orders of truth that any public law, whether Pennsylvania's law to ban smoking in most public
places or the Indian contemporary smoking ban law from the D-day, can explain. Tobacco, cigarettes and of
course cigars, whose Caribbean history is older than most civilizations today, record a testimony of being a silent
and incessant contributor to some of the world greatest triumphs. Two such fables, and perhaps the most admired
ones through out the annals of the world history, are William Shakespeare with his clay pipe and the man with
the relativistic eyes, Albert Einstein with his signature ones that poke unintentionally from every passport to
calendar size graffiti of him. Ironically, If one go by an international survey that intone a fact that tobacco (with
due respect to sovereign cigar), takes away their masters 14 years earlier, than those who don't hold a smoking
pipe, then I guess that the world missed it by just that much number of years. Had it not been so, Albert Einstein
could have filled the still greatly enigmatic loopholes in the Grand unified theory, isn't it?. From ages then and
after, the research continued, and so as the use of the cause of it.

SMOKE IS KING : Tobacco smoking now, is currently by far the most commemorated form of smoking and is
practiced by more than a billion masse in different human cultures and societies. It's indeed proven in several
contemporary research analysis that the '4000+ chemical containing flame-stick' consumption projection has
crossed subtle boundaries of enjoyment and style-insignia to now enjoy a cult status collateral to, if not broader
than, time-honored civic intakes of dailies like tea, coffee and in fact a civilized combination of cigarettes and
Cold drinks (with that capital 'C') has gone epidemic, at least I have seen my students taking deep night stresses
for semesters and projects amid avidly respecting such nicotine stimulants for carrying the tradition of being hard
code nocturnal, I suppose.
In India, the history of smoking and its gradual adaptations are entirely different from its western counterparts.
The latter, throwing an annual obituary of about 4.3L deaths, take it owing to their hard pressing deadlines, while
we do it for a plethora of divergent occasions. From busting out stresses to portray manhood, as a casual puffer to
an edacious chain smoker, we have it all, and some, who can't rob a bank, consume just for an adventure. Some
of the earlier results of one of my unzipped research about smoking and tobacco effects on youth, are such that
those who take first, continue in absence of a strong compelling motivational force while those who are caught
early in hideouts, feel guilty and abandon fast, never to taste again. The motivation can have alternate sources,
from family or from outside. Fortunately, i can mention now, 'or sources from your government also'. The recent
decision to completely outlaw smoking on all public places is good news, at least for those who don't want to die
14 years earlier as a passive smoker.
While one may not be sure about whether the Center's or ITC stand on seeking adjudication over Chief Justice
Balakrishnan's decision of completely banning smoking in public places (although much debate is on defining
what are public places) from the 'D-day', although that could strongly re-iconize our image as a WHO potential
member, but two things are for sure. First, that our judiciary seems to have finally genesis-ed a way to glorify the
notion of 'Cigarette smoking is injurious to health', and second, with full reverence to the Gandhi Year 2008, that
the Mahatma still breath around us like a father, who constantly register what we buy from our surplus pocket
money, a father untouched of any law and unparalleled of any celebrated human chronicle.
Hookah statistics, however, i excluded from my research. Not because of that small 0.5 nicotine figure, but
because of it's not-so-easy availability inside most city corners, except for some flaunt decorated hookah bars and
its existence at public waiting places.
Traditionally, Hookah is an Indian gift, transported by time into Europe, South Africa and Arab countries like
Israel. The name, with stressed 'oo' as you might pronounce it, however acquired its omni-status during British
dominions. As such it can easily be located in multiple frequencies in any of the viceroy's or governor general's
Memoirs. Hookah, infact has a more fascinating story than any of its other look-a-likes. Besides Gloves and robe
once worn by Muhammad Ali and Thomas Jefferson's self-invented desk, The Smithsonian's National Museum
of American History, that preserve over 3.2 million worshipped objects also defends one of the Einstein's
signature tobacco pipes, that he had given to his secretary Gina Plunguian, as a souvenir, few years after the
second World War.

My Reverence to 'legendary flames' : Smoking history and their symbolic benefits transcend to much more
than just glorious writing, incredible discoveries or plays. Smoke the experience of Cuban Crafters or of
Shakespeare's Vintage Cigar Lines and they will shortly transform you into a harried, stressed out writer's image
something that is hard to change after, and something you can preferably buy instead of long plagiarism acts
against you. And you can safely take the freedom of the darker side of the law - 'say no to flames at public
places', to smoke 'personnel', away from all your social extensions, cigarette a few and finish your epistolaries!.
Long after you have kicked the bucket but it can help you get the Best of the Booker.

From Albert Einstein's pipe to Marilyn Monroe Cigarette Case Lighters worth around $10, or Nat Sherman
Hamptons, that never really pack a punch but are great on the golf course, you can easily purchase your
collection from boxdata.net. I am feeling of collecting my own, of course not to use or nor to think to competing
against Park Lane Tobacconist1 of Clifton Park NY, but to give a last reverence to something that we should leave
but should never forget because once upon a time, you see, 'Smoke was king'.