Millions of office workers enjoy a furtive fag out-of-doors now that many offices are smoke-free.
Mssigno's one of those guys who gets us all hot and bothered and then "nips out for a pack of fags" and doesn't return for...well, ages.
But no, in the search for the right analogy, you might better alight on the man who goes to the doctor thinking he's got lung cancer, is told that it's just a cough, and goes straight out to buy a packet of fags to celebrate.
The first thing an out-of-work actor does upon returning home, even if it's only from the end of the garden for a sly fag, is to look at the answering machine.
Then it's on to more stubbing out of legislative fag-ends - with Consideration of Lords amendments to the Recall of MPs Bill and the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill - in both cases these seem to be technical tidying-up, rather than huge unresolved conflicts.
For my many thousands of American readers, I should point out that fag in this context does not mean homosexual.
He is waiting for a member of staff at Soho House in London to tell him to put out his fag, and he is not disappointed.
'Yes, originally.' " 'Whitechapel,' said Millat, pulling out a fag.
