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Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Quitting smoking: 5 of 25

I grew up in an age when people sort of knew that smoking caused illness and was dangerous - but smoking was so damn good. Having a cigarette capped off a great meal and great (or even mediocre) sex. Smoking was the perfect time filler-upper. It was a vacation in your pocket, taking you away from the office or the classroom or the long drive and plunking you down into your private nirvana cocoon that lasted moments past the last drag. Last week, I read about the Cigarette Diet of the early 1940s. Now there's an interesting way to lose weight. Smoke it away. Back then many a doctor preached...
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