"_Men_ don't smoke cigarettes.

That's left for weak-minded boys." "Say, how many years you been smoking, Jim Ferrers ?" demanded Alf, rather defiantly.
"Answer him, please," requested Tom, when he saw their guide and cook frown.
"Lemme see," replied the Nevada man, doing some mental arithmetic on his fingers.

"I reckon I've been smoking twenty-three years, because I began when I was twenty-four years old.

Hang the stuff, I wish I had never begun, either.

But I didn't smoke at your age, papoose.