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No Smoking Day 2016: Stopping smoking sucks, but being a smoker sucks more

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I used to hate No Smoking Day, especially the stuff about how smoking is bad.

I wasn’t going through two and a half packs a day because I thought smokes were healthy, or because I thought ladies loved to see a man who couldn’t climb stairs without coughing up a lung.

Like every smoker since about 1947, I knew full well that smoking was lethal. I just couldn’t stop.

And then I did, after 22 years. But I still hate No Smoking Day.

My reasons are different now, though.

I hate it because it’s a day of listening to smug ex-smokers talking about how easy stopping was.

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