Curing the World of Smoking

'I'M GOING TO CURE THE WORLD OF SMOKING.' I was talking to my wife. She thought that

I had flipped. Understandable if you consider that she had watched me fail on numerous

attempts to quit. The most recent had been two years previously. I'd actually survived

six months of sheer purgatory before I finally succumbed and lit a cigarette. I'm not ashamed

to admit that I cried like a baby. I was crying because I knew that I was condemned to he

a smoker for life. I'd put so much effort into that attempt and suffered so much misery that

I knew I would never have the strength to go through that ordeal again. I'm not a violent

man, but if some patronizing non-smoker had been stupid enough at that moment to suggest