The old jest goes that you can always tell someone is a true Guyanese by their frugal request to the vendor “to pass a single” from the tray or for the bigger order of two cigarettes instead of purchasing the whole pack, like the rest of the world with money to burn. But the joke is on all smokers as another anonymous saying puts it, for paying to deploy a deadly paper cylinder that comes with a bit of finely rolled tobacco on fire at one end and a fool at the other.
