By heightening rather than merely prolonging life, the cigarette both mirrors and intertwines with the ephemerality that, in terms Silicon Valleys tech-utopian optimiser bros should understand, is not a bug but a feature of the human condition
Traditionally thought of as more 'masculine', it's the smoking tool, arguably, that radically changes her gender coding and attitude
Not a frame passed that somebody wasn't getting conked on the bean, shot point-blank (which just singed and turned them into Niggers), or dropping off the 30th story
The paper of the cigarette burns out in one fell swoop, literally in 67 puffs, and the tobacco does not have time to burn out
We can't stop going over to her house as we are her major support and she refuses to stop smoking