The concept of CUTTING

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First of all, I am not a chain smoker, nor am i controlled by cigarettes. I am the kind who smokes occasionaly when my friends smoke...no..this is not called peer pressure. "i Hang out with them anyway; instead of harming myself by smoking passively, why not do it the right way" is my philosophy..And by the way,my new years resolution was not to smoke. After that went down the drain like the election manifesto of Indian Politicians, here i am writing about my filter-tip-buddy and the concept of cutting.

Let me try and do this the Wiki way!.. here goes....

Cutting - kat'eeng

Cutting is a term popularly used in the South Indian city of Chennai by its youth to define sharing of a cigarette/Beedi/joint among peers. This sharing is usually due to one of the following reasons:

1.Impoverishment of few or all of the peers involved.

2.When the number of cigarettes/Beedis/Joints smoked by one of the peers, exceeds the self-imposed limit and the feeling of guilt sets in, but the urge to smoke gets the better of one of them

3.When the peer group wants to symbolise everlasting(ironic aint it) friendship.

4.To reduce the probability of getting caught with a cigarette in hand, by relatives, parents and girlfriends' friends. (I dint mention girlfriend on purpose,because i assumed one would know the whereabouts of one's girlfriend and would stay nowhere within a 3KM radius of that whereabout).

A few experts in the field of cutting are blatanly against point #2 as they say that there is an idle time between two consecutive drags when one smokes a full cigarette; Whereas when Cutting, one takes a drag and passes the cigarette on to his peer almost immediately. This compensates the idle time of the former, thereby enabling a cutter to increase the chances of getting lung cancer as effectively as a normal smoker would.

Types of Cutting

There are various sports in cutting, the popular among these are :

The F16 : This is where the peer group forms a circle, and keeps the the dragged smoke in ones lungs till the cigarette/beedi/joint completes one full round and comes back to them. The ones to blow the smoke out are eliminated from the elite circle.

Last man standing : This is a normal form of cutting where the person to stub the cigarette sponsors the next 20s pack for the group. The misers that people are, end up smoking the filter and to pass it on to the next person, just to save that 80/- and end up paying in lakhs for chemo.

External Links

* http://www.shortcuttoimpotency.com/

*http://www.wannadieyoung.com/

*http://www.cutting-central.com/