I like the taste of cigarettes, cigars, and (especially) pipes more than I like the taste of coffee, and I really like coffee.

All those things you mentioned were big losses; I really do think there after-meal smoke was the hardest to let go of. Someone posted something about how cigarettes are actually bad for your digestion, but it doesn’t feel like it. In fact, it feels like the opposite.

Aw, man. If I survive my wife, I’m going to take smoking back up again. By then, cancer from smoking is statistically unlikely to be what gets me.