Metin reconnects with friends who drink and smoke, drive fancy foreign cars and ride around in speedboats.
A maverick who chain-smoked, drove a Jaguar and loved sailing with his wife and two children, Mr. Heywood told friends he met Mr. Bo in the northeastern city of Dalian, where Mr. Bo served as mayor and in other posts from 1993 to 2004.
And finally, more somberly, they questioned their white friends' professed helplessness in the face of their parents' prejudice ("You're 18 years old! You're old enough to smoke, drive, do whatever else you want to. Why aren't you able to step up and say, 'I want to have my senior prom with the people I'm graduating with?' ").
Yet the additional risks were not only small, but equivalent to those they accepted as part of their life in any event, because they smoked, drove, or lived in Boston.
He probably smokes and drives a motorcycle.
A worldly man in his late thirties, he smokes Marlboros, drives a Toyota, and follows Spanish soccer, rooting for Barcelona.
"There will come a time, maybe 20 years from now, when you won't be able to buy a Strad or a Guarneri for any amount," said Mr. Fushi, a large man who smokes Gauloises, drives fancy cars (including a 2001 Rolls Royce Silver Seraph) and wears handmade alligator cowboy boots in a rainbow of colors.
A golfer needs all sorts of qualities to be a Ryder Cup star - able to sink putts under pressure, fire flawless irons from the fairway, and smoke drives off the tee.
If it is May — or any month but April — Mark Teixeira will smoke line drives and crush majestic home runs and slip grounders through drawn-in infields.
The fact that it's only afforded to those who smoke further drives the societal wedge between those who do not, therein shining a light on what makes the habit so unique: Every benefit that it affords the user compounds the alienation they feel from their peers.
