[Madame Dufarge]

There's an unmanly quality about "male" smoking Nazis that greatly diminishes the relevance of their observations in this realm.

Probably low testosterone or no real male influence in their formative years.

Someone should do a study.

[Quix]

Probably low testosterone or no real male influence in their formative years.

Someone should do a study.
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You could well be right . . . perhaps a flavor of reaction formation against internal emotional nutlessness? Could be.

I've always felt that the way most smokers hold their ciggies is very close to the way the same folks hold their middle finger aloft on occasion. And their nonverbal face and head movements are also quite similar--kind of a "I dare you to make something of it! ___ yours!" sort of attitude. We see a lot of that sort of attitude on such threads as these. All in the sweetest tones, of course. NOT!

Certainly there's an element of that in the crass rudeness of the way MANY [thankfully not all] smokers behave with their smoking in public places.