St Kevin Asks King O'Toole for a "shock" ... is that the same as a "smoke"? Since he ends up with a pipe, I have assumed it does mean a smoke. Correct?

My father was in the US Navy stationed in Ireland in WW One and once asked a guy there why he smoked a clay pipe. "For the convenience of it" was the answer. Dad asked him what he meant by that. "If I drop it, I don't have to pick it up." .......... Edmund