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Article: Keep hope alight!(smoking)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- April 16, 2007
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Champagne with the sweet ... Napoleon with coffee. And cigarettes. I had been thinking about cigarettes all day. These were Benson & Hedges No. 5 ... and I had been smoking those black French things to save money.
--Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road
NOT a bad choice. Not very surprising, either, that Heinlein, an American, used a British brand of smokes to emphasize the unexpected classiness of that dinner in the middle of nowhere.
When first getting acquainted with cigarettes, I took the opposite view. A classy smoke in provincial England circa 1960 was a Chesterfield or a Tareyton--anything American. Our fathers smoked Senior Service or Players. ...