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Heh.The one good thing I can say is that I love the smell of cigars and tobacco. That's because one of the two places I used to buy my comics back in the 60s was the Cigar Store in Field's Corner. So whenever I smell a cigar or tobacco, I think I'm about to get a new issue of Fantastic Four by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
And I associate the smell of bacon sammiches with the FF, as I used to get my comics from a market stall that was next to where they were sold...
The second place I bought my comics then was a small grocer's called Regerio's near Upham's Corner. That was the place that sold DC and Gold Key type comics, so that fresh vegetable grocer smell always reminds me of them. 
I smoke and since Britain has banned smoking in pubs I've met a lot more people. Huddled together in a usually cheap lean-to around a heater which throws out less warmth than a 50W bulb, there is a certain comraderie. We seem to have much more fun, so much so we are infiltrated by non-smokers who want to know what the joke is. Thinking of putting up signs saying 'smokers only allowed'
When Minnesota banned smoking in bars, I thought it would really bother me, but I kind of enjoy heading outside and chatting with all the other exiled smokers. I sure wish the bars here would put up lean-tos: The most we can expect is a propane heater to huddle around.
I really hate the new "fire safety cigarettes". Minnesota just enacted a law that all cigs sold have to be safety cigs, and several things about them bug me. First of all, they taste strange. Secondly, if you don't puff on them just about nonstop, they go out. I may be less likely to burn down my house with these cigarettes, but the odds of me crashing my car as I fumble around trying to constantly relight them probably went way up.
Every once in a while I will indulge myself and have a good cigar or a pipeful of good tobacco. It really varies how often, generally the time between in measured in months. Cigs on the other hand are nasty and brutish. They're the fast food, the bud light, the walmart, the tv dinner of tobacco.
Ok I'm nasty and Brutish! And where's my big mac?!
Anyway cigars and pipes smell more!!
Nope- they're pretty nasty. Supposedly there's something in the paper that causes them to extinguish on their own rather quickly. I decided to pay more and buy my cigs in Wisconsin just to avoid the fire safety ones.^You are kidding right?! 'Fire safety cigarettes'?? Are you sure they haven't just sold you a plastic roll up?
You were doing good up until "TV Dinner."
I admit the pasta ones are quite edible, but no one would ever mistake a tv dinner for fine cuisine.
Cuisine, shmisine. They're Americana. And the only thing I can cook.
Cuisine, shmisine. They're Americana. And the only thing I can cook.
Pfff. Ridiculous! I could teach you how to cook a half a dozen things no problem. Even just boiling water, cooking pasta, then throwing in a little brown sugar, a little tomato sauce, a little soy sauce, a little rice vinegar, a little lime juice, a little ginger, a little garlic, a few red pepper flakes and a little sesame oil then mixing it all up is cooking. Anyone capable of pushing buttons on a microwave is capable of that.
Well, I was exaggerating a bit. I do have a George Foreman Burger Maker and an electric skillet stir fry thingamajig. It's really just a combination of time deficit and laziness that leads me to rely on the microwave so much.
I don't blame you, she says lighting up an original full on bad Marlborough light - yeah the light bit ruins it doesn't it
I used to smoke Camel filters, back when I smoked cigarettes.
Now, those will put hair on your lungs.
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