How many times have I said those words?
And, yes, at times it was even with a burning cancer stick in my mouth.
The truth is I do not see myself as a smoker, per se. It is merely that I have inhaled burnt carbon from cigarettes thousands of times. But a smoker? Not me. Never.
I don't really smoke cigarettes. Not at least since my days living on a ship where everyone smoked. That was "if ya can't beat em, join em." But that didn't realy count, right?
Then there was the time when I lived amongst a bunch of smokers in a remote locale in Utah. I mean I was in the middle of nowhere; in friggin UTAH, for gawd's sake. And even then I was only smoking rollies, not the store bought pre-rolled kind. Those are the cigs that smokers smoke.
Then there was the period when I was traveling overseas in India amidst tons of Europeans, Israelis and the like. THOSE people are smokers. I merely had a fag now and then to keep up with the Joneses. And even then I merely smoked beedis, which aren't even a real cigarette.
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