I smoke alone sometimes to be by myself and relax, but most of the time I despise it. In fact, if I had a buddy who smoked as much as I would like to, I'd probably go through sticks about 10 times as fast as I do right now. Usually I smoke with people during that rare, "hey Nagel, I think it's finally time to have a stogie" special event type thing. Rare, but maybe that's a good thing