#7 Cigarettes

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Most people probably know (intuitively if not scientifically) that inhaling toxins in the form of a cigarette into your system is not good for you. Over the years the medical, scientific and civic communities have tried to make much publicity about the downsides of smoking.

But that message may have either been skipped over by the Armenian community or maybe Armenians just don’t care. Armenians love smoking. It is a rite of passage for every thirteen year old boy to go through a pack of ciggies before school is out.

Smoking is natural for Armenians. If every country were to ban smoking, Philip Morris would still have a solid market among Armenians. The aroma of the cigarette (usually cigarettes and rarely cigars or pipes) becomes part of the Armenian person. Some of us know that we have never really smelled our parent’s natural body odor because the cigarette has done a pretty good job covering it up for as long as we’ve known our parent.

If you want to date or bond or just get to know an Armenian, it is safe to say that offering a few cigarettes to them and smoking with them would build the necessary trust