Many idlers love to smoke. It gives is something to do when we’re not doing anything. ‘The smoker simultaneously injects and excuses idleness in his life with every cigarette,’ observed Colette of this dignified pastime. This ancient aid to relaxation and thought is ceaselessly bombarded by the envious snipes of the scurrying swarms of the anti-idle. Will these busybodies not leave us alone? All idlers – smokers or not – should resist members of the anti-smoking lobby for the oppression of leisure, pleasure, conviviality and contemplation that they are.