Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
And in your clothes and your curtains and your upholstery, but that's not why I've decided to quit smoking again.Smoking turns your walls and your teeth yellow, and it's an expense that nothing justifies. It's harmful to your health, advanced science now tells us, not like in the 1920s when doctors used to recommend cigarettes to pregnant women as a way of controlling their weight. Yes they did. I'm serious. Go look it up.
Smoking is messy and unpleasant, potentially harmful to cats, and makes people look down on you unless they're doing it too, which fewer and fewer are. You don't need to tell me any of this, Gentle Reader. I may be clueless sometimes, but I'm not a moron.
Goddamit, though, smoking sure looked sexy when Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall did it in To Have And Have Not. There must be something good about it.
Let me think on that and I'll get back to you tomorrow.
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9 Comments:
Well, it DOES give you something to do with your other hand while drinking...
YAY!
it was a bitch to quit but i feel SO much better, four years later.
I think you're confusing cause and effect where THaHN is concerned: Bogart and Bacall would have looked sexy while cutting their toenails.
But hooray for the quitting! (A tip from a friend who quit: get a really big jar and put into it every fiver (or whatever) that you would have spent, and when full treat yourself to something nice.)
You're not very hard to figure, only at times. Sometimes I know exactly what you're going to say. Most of the time. The other times... the other times, you're just a stinker.
I'm surprised, yet happy.
I never even think about quitting. I'm pretty certain that it's a sign that I don't have an addiction at all. I mean, if I had an addiction, wouldn't I be trying to quit and stuff? Right?
Good luck. Seriously.
It makes your voice all gravely.
I'm glad you're quitting... Smoking is really bad for you... and gets pretty expensive in so many ways.
Smokers tended to be my most annoying customers. Quitting is good. Good luck!
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