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Smirting | Smexting |
 So a mixed blessing then, the smoking ban. If you're a non-smoker, you can smell your food again; if you're a smoker it's a new way to socialise.
Smirting is the practice of flirting over a smoke in bar, pub and club doorways. A great way to meet people, and almost worth taking up smoking for.
This mixture of smoking and flirting first established itself in New York in 2003 when the smoking ban came into force and soon spread to Ireland, where the projected fall in smokers failed to happen as people discovered this great, casual and laidback way of getting in on the dating scene.
From July 1st 2007, England followed the Scots and Welsh in banning the dreaded fag, giving smoking back its behind the bike shed feel and so fuelling smirting fever. |
 There is close on a conspiratorial feeling about nipping outside and talking to total strangers that you would never had met otherwise. Chatting, flirting, swapping tips and advice on venues with the best outdoor smoking areas, perhaps resulting in the odd exchange of a phone number or two. |
 Once the British were so reserved when meeting people for the first time. A handshake and a polite nod is the most you'd get from a Brit compared to our hugging and kissing Euro cousins. But that was in times gone by. Now we have the "Smirt", and all is changed. To find a smirt area near you always look for the sign with the red circle (here's one we prepared earlier) with a stranger close by just waiting to offer you a light. They are about to become a new friend! |
 SMEXTING.
Smexting is gr8 4 u!
So, you're back outside for a smoke and there's no-one to smirt with - or maybe there is, but you're too shy, or would just rather not (it's not obligatory). Chances are, then, you'll be smexting instead.
Apparently, in the two weeks immediately following the introduction of the smoking ban in the UK, texting rose dramatically. Well, so says Orange, reporting that its 17 million mobile phone users sent an additional 7.5m texts.
Well let's face it. It can be lonely standing out in the rain having a fag....the burning desire soon kicks in to whip out your phone and start texting friends, work colleagues - anybody really. Anything to not look like a total sado! They may even be texting friends for support while they try and cut down or give up the nicotine habit altogether.
So. Smirting and Smexting. What will they think of next? How's about smoking whilst jumping up and down to keep warm in winter - aka smumping. What a load of smollocks! |
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