I happen to be a casual smoker — i puff on one cigar a day, usually in the morning.
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I happen to be a casual smoker — I puff on one cigar a day, usually in the morning. Do not inhale (can’t believe there are folks who inhale cigar smoke). It is, I realize, a calculated risk.
It has also occurred to me that you meet smokers in their 90s — whereas you won’t meet any ‘serious’ drinkers older than around 70, with a few exceptions (thinking of the wizened little
farmer hoeing up his sweet potatoes on Kyushu or Okinawa — 95 and still puts away a half liter of shochu a day). Drinking, I’ve concluded, is a zero sum game. So thanks but no thanks. When
tobacco first made its way to Japan, by the way, it was common practice to pass around a ciggie the way we shared joints in the 1960s. ‘Ippuku’ — one puff — was plenty.