) from an interview in Paris 2001 and he was lighting up a few times, did he take up his bad habits, one I unfortunately share, along with his life as a monk.Altin
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I am sure I read here that Cohen gave up smoking some 10 years ago, well I just watched a video(thank you Margaret ) from an interview in Paris 2001 and he was lighting up a few times, did he take up his bad habits, one I unfortunately share, along with his life as a monk.
Altin
) from an interview in Paris 2001 and he was lighting up a few times, did he take up his bad habits, one I unfortunately share, along with his life as a monk.Altin
This is from an article in SATURDAY NIGHT.
He had quit for a few years until a chain-smoking sage in Bombay had told him, "Not smoking? What's life for? Smoke!" "I bought a pack of cigarettes that day," says Cohen.
http://www.webheights.net/10newsongs/press/satnite.htm
He had quit for a few years until a chain-smoking sage in Bombay had told him, "Not smoking? What's life for? Smoke!" "I bought a pack of cigarettes that day," says Cohen.
http://www.webheights.net/10newsongs/press/satnite.htm
A friend of mine once said "whats the point in giving up drinking, smoking, excercising,dieting to live longer when what do you get, your sight goes,your hearing, your legs" and so on. I tend to agree but then I'm biased 
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Paula,
I can fully understand that you felt unhealthy without the fags. So would I...
"You get back into the smokers huddle outside buildings again", which is, as every non-smoker should know, the real centre of communication in any company.
There, not in formal meetings, the real decisions are taken. A company of non-smokers (a "pack of non-smokers" I'd say, keeping that other thread in mind) would probably die from a lack of internal information flow...
By the way: the former high-jump champion Patrick Sjoeberg once has been attacked by a journalist for smoking in public. His response was memorable. He simply looked at the reporter and asked: "How should I jump 2.40 m without smoking?"
And Leonard's story is unbeatable...
I can fully understand that you felt unhealthy without the fags. So would I...
"You get back into the smokers huddle outside buildings again", which is, as every non-smoker should know, the real centre of communication in any company.
There, not in formal meetings, the real decisions are taken. A company of non-smokers (a "pack of non-smokers" I'd say, keeping that other thread in mind) would probably die from a lack of internal information flow...
By the way: the former high-jump champion Patrick Sjoeberg once has been attacked by a journalist for smoking in public. His response was memorable. He simply looked at the reporter and asked: "How should I jump 2.40 m without smoking?"
And Leonard's story is unbeatable...
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smoking
Gasping with asthma! 
Breath as sweet as an ashtray! 
Looking down the barrel at emphysema! 
No I do not regret giving up the smokes. Though I did like the extraordinary effects of the unidentified brand of roll your owns that some of my friends had at parties back in the 70's. 
Just pull that cork and pour me another red! Iam as
as a pig in ----
Cheers, Witty Owl.
Breath as sweet as an ashtray! Looking down the barrel at emphysema! No I do not regret giving up the smokes. Though I did like the extraordinary effects of the unidentified brand of roll your owns that some of my friends had at parties back in the 70's. Just pull that cork and pour me another red! Iam as
as a pig in ----Cheers, Witty Owl.
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Glenda Jackson was in a movie called Health and was asked by reporters what she herself did to stay healthy.
'I overdose on coffee and cigarettes,' she answered, straight faced, 'and between nervous shaking from the caffeine and coughing from the nicotine, I'll have as thorough a work-out as if I'd jogged for seventeen blocks.'
I knew I had a reason for liking Ms Jackson.
'I overdose on coffee and cigarettes,' she answered, straight faced, 'and between nervous shaking from the caffeine and coughing from the nicotine, I'll have as thorough a work-out as if I'd jogged for seventeen blocks.'
I knew I had a reason for liking Ms Jackson.
"... to make a pale imitation of reality with twenty-six juggled letters"
"... all words are lies because they can only represent one of many levels of being"
Sober noises of morning in a marginal land.
"... all words are lies because they can only represent one of many levels of being"
Sober noises of morning in a marginal land.
As an ex-smoker I have to agree with Witty. It's tempting sometimes to want to re-join the huddle, but in the course of my job I have to visit people suffering from some of those illnesses and it's enough to keep me from lighting up again.
I'll stick to the red wine, or brandy, or gin and tonic, or anything that's going actually!
Margaret
I'll stick to the red wine, or brandy, or gin and tonic, or anything that's going actually!
Margaret
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