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I miss the days when smoking was a social connector

I'm curious if anyone else remembers the days when it was so easy to casually meet people just by smoking. I don't smoke now and haven't for a long time. I was never a serious smoker to begin with. I just remember in high school and college, if you were outside having a cigarette, it was almost an instant conversation starter. I'm a total introvert, so I never initiated conversations with strangers. But so often someone would just come up to me and ask for a light. From there, we'd start a little conversation. Sometimes that was all it was. Other times, I actually made real friends that way. It happened constantly both on and off campus. This is definitely not a smoking advocacy post, but I've just been thinking about how different things were back then in terms of socializing. It seems so much harder now to have those kinds of random, low-pressure interactions with people. #Nostalgia #CollegeLife #Socializing #IntrovertProblems #SocialLife #SmokingCulture