Cigarettes in your ears? Come on!
I saw a strange thing on MAX on the way to work this morning. A guy with a just-woke-up-from-my-refrigerator-box air about him got on the train, but not before pinching out his lit cigarette and tucking it behind his ear. One can only surmise that he was saving the rest for later. I mean, if you’re dumpster-diving for your meals (yes, I’m aware that this is a pretty big assumption about this gentleman, but it is after all MY observation,) you probably aren’t spending $3 or $4 for a pack of smokes, you’re probably bumming them off of others, so each individual stick is like gold.
Now, I seem to remember reading somewhere that nicotine is supposedly more addictive than crack cocaine. I’m not a smoker, I don’t drink excessively, in fact I’ve never been addicted to anything, except maybe spaghetti marinara (though recently Rebecca Marie politely pointed out my obvious lack of sophistication; what I thought of as fine cuisine was most likely, to her finely tuned Italian palate, wallpaper paste al dente.) I really can’t speak for that feeling of need that drives people to spend their food money on something that is very obviously killing them. However, I do know that anyone can quit if they really want to and really try. Kathy quit smoking cold turkey and hasn’t had a smoke in more than two years, and it is one of her accomplishments of which I am most proud.
4 comments March 22nd, 2005