I often get asked about this matter. Even the local fire department has asked me on occasion to give advice to those smokers, who, because of regulations imposed by non-smokers were going to have to smoke outside, in a Chicago winter, if they wanted a cigarette.

My approach to this matter is based on my smoking pipe, and up to three packs of British navy cigarettes a day, and sometimes rolling my own from cigar tobacco. I am not one of those holier than thou non-smokers who accuse the smoker- of lack of will power and try to frighten them into stopping. Because unlike the never-having-smoked I know how it starts and what goes on inside.