sedaris

It's popular to believe that every smoker was brainwashed, sucked in by product placements and subliminal ads. This argument comes in handy when you want to assign blame, but it discounts the fact that smoking is often wonderful. For people like me, people who twitched and jerked and cried out in tiny voices, cigarettes were a godsend. Not only that, but they tasted good, especially the first one in the morning, and the seven or eight that immediately followed it. (247)

Sedaris, David. "The Smoking Section." When You Are Engulfed in Flames. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2008. 240-323.