(July 5, 2020 at 8:42 am)onlinebiker Wrote:(July 4, 2020 at 11:03 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: "I've learned to smoke with moderation: only one cigar at a time." (Mark Twain)
I smoked while in the service. Once - while working a hot SAR case - I was chain smoking... I didn't notice the section Chief (who did not smoke) calmly putting out my cigarettes...
He later told the story that I would light a smoke, take a drag - then put in the ashtray -get on the radio - then a minute later light another. Lather, rinse, repeat......
At one time I had 5 cigarettes lit at once..
Force of habit...
I knew a guy in the army who was so in the habit of smoking that he'd strike a match and raise it to his mouth without even having a cigarette in his lips. I used to smoke cigars when I was in college during the late 1960's and switched to pipe smoking about ten years later. I gradually lost my taste and interest in smoking by the early 1990's and gradually quit without any real effort. I was buying my cigars, pipes and tobacco from The Thompson Cigar Company. They're still in business, but their product line is not as extensive as it used to be.
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)