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Smoking, from several perspectives

The subject of smoking has been around for many, many years and now you can observe some aspects of the subject from different perspectives including this famous illustrated poem "The Ballad of Salvation Bill" by Robert W. Service.

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.

-Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), English playwright, novelist, and short story writer

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.

-Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens; 1835-1910)

Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

King James I of England (1576-1621), in his
"A Counterblaste to Tobacco"
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