Why would someone actually smoke a crazy amount of forty cigarettes in one day. Forty. Not four, or fourteen, forty actual cigarettes. I know cigarettes can be used to calm someone down, but how anxious and stressed would you have to be to smoke forty in one day. Even though Paul was in an unbelievably stressful and dangerous situation, it is still an obscene amount to smoke forty in one single day. That’s like three or four packs of cigarettes. Most people when they smoke, it’s like maybe one pack a week. Paul probably sees it as an escape from all the stress and anxiety he is dealing with. War is probably the most difficult time to live in. And if your job is being a soldier, fighting in a war, that’s very tough. Because at any moment of the day, your life could be over. That’s it. You’re dead. You don’t know if you’ll survive, die, or lose a limb. So the amount of stress, anxiety, and trauma these soldiers are going through day after day, just makes it a little more understandable as to why this man was smoking forty cigarettes in one day.