The Unreal World: (4) Is smoking bad for you?

Ah Seng is having coffee with his friend, Ah Beng in the village kopitiam.

Ah Seng: You seem to be smoking quite a lot. Isn't it bad for you?

Ah Beng: What twenty cigarettes a day, bad for me? That's not too many. They relax me, and I can think better smoking them.

Ah Seng: But you do cough a lot lately. I hear they can give you TB.

Ah Beng: Nonsense! Besides, I smoke the best....Abdulla's and Senior Service, all imported from the UK. My mother-in-law smokes the local red uncured tobacco by the pound and she's almost eighty today, she's sound as a bell! (Shouts) Eh, boy, one more round of kopi kau and a packet of Abdulla 30.