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A Smoker’s lament in a Zero-tolerant world

I have just come back from my first visit to New York. My equally addictive traveling companion took a photograph of me standing and smoking next to a big fat chimney which belched creamy  steam into Lexington Avenue to give our kind of zap sign to their ever so clean mayor, Mr Bloomberg.

Our hotel room was of course non-smoking so we dangled our arms out of a thin slit in the window to pollute the high sky and not our room for the sole reason that we were told that the hotel would fine us 250 dollars to de-tox it. Read the rest »

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