>>345I won't pretend that there is any comparable sophistication with cigarettes, nor will I act like a swine before pearls and mock the discernment which cigar/pipe smokers have.
If there is any one prevailing feature with cigarettes, though, it is that they are "anytime". Whether if it's going outside with coworkers or college friends on a smoke break, running into a smoker on the street and asking for a light or outright bumming a cig (or them doing so with you), there is a definite social aspect to them which is transferable to nearly any environment.
I can certainly say that I've befriended people whom I never would've met if it weren't for us regularly running into each standing in the same spot outside for our dose, and that there were moments of intimacy with my ex which were started or enhanced by the mutual lighting up of a fag.