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From The Funny Side: One Hundred Humorous Poems, by Wendy Cope

GIVING UP SMOKING

There's not a Shakespeare sonnet
Or a Beethoven quartet
That's easier to like than you
Or harder to forget.

You think that sounds extravagant?
I haven't finished yet —
I like you more than I would like
To have a cigarette.

A Caricature

A Caricature

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From Essays After Eighty, by Donald Hall

MY FRIEND

"My friend Carole smokes cigarettes, the only friend who does.  When she visits we sit opposite each other, smoking and talking about death."

From No Smoking

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From Tono-Bungay, by H. G. Wells

INORDINATE

"I became an inordinate cigar smoker; it gave me moods of profound depression, but I treated these usually by the homeopathic method, -- by lighting another cigar."

From Book 3, Chapter 3, Soaring

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From A Dissertation Upon Roast Pork and Other Essays, by Charles Lamb

AND TO ME

"I should repel my readers, from a mere incapacity of believing me, were I to tell them what tobacco has been to me, the drudging service which I have paid, the slavery which I have vowed to it."

From Confessions of a Drunkard

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From My Lady Nicotine, by J. M. Barrie

RALEIGH

"When Raleigh, in honour of whom England should have changed its name, introduced tobacco into this country, the glorious Elizabethan age began."

From Chapter XIII, The Grandest Scene in History

Tobacco, by Charles Lamb