Monthly Archives: August 2008
Like That Little Dog
While I’m sitting on the front stoop of my apartment building, smoking a cigarette and watching everybody walk by me on the sidewalk one weekday morning, a man shuffles forward and sits on the empty step next to me. He’s … Continue reading
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Smoking Quote #2: Cease a Thousand Times
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times. – Mark Twain
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Enterprise Mission
I used to work in the Flatiron District, in a building that had a winding labyrinth of fire escapes hidden away from the street. We called one section of that fire escape the “smoking lounge.” There were but a few … Continue reading
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Tom Chiarella Learns to Smoke
In the March 2008 issue of Esquire, writer Tom Chiarella wrote about his first cigarette — as a 46-year-old non-smoker. From “Learning to Smoke“: It’s not permitted. It pisses people off. It makes you puke. It confuses you, and it … Continue reading
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You Know I’d Have Your Back
At a party in Battery Park City one night, I take the liberty of stepping out onto the host’s fire escape to light a cigarette. (Even though the long arm of the New York City smoking ban law might not extend … Continue reading
Filed under Apartments & Parties
Smoking Quote #1: Smoke Dances
Watching the smoke dance out of a cigarette is like watching a girl dance out of her dress. – D.H. Mondfleur
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