Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in ones own latent greatness. Which frankly, fitted the bill far better, because Svevo grasps the real nettle here: in a culture in which using a particular intoxicant is accorded the status of a quasi-acceptable vice, the individual smokers self-conception becomes hopelessly divided: on the one virtuous hand theres nary a yellowy stain, while on the other main sale the taint is deep and jaundiced
Again, we dont know why people dont start smoking after the age of 20, but perhaps its because we become less and less willing to take risks with age, says Speed
Psychopharmacology (2020)
Second Light (True Light): Light the tobacco again, just like the first light
Since 2014, Lorillard and RJR Tobacco have paid more than $40 million in asbestos compensation to settle claims