'One cigar a day, when I ordered you three?
I might have guessed as much.

When I tell non-smokers that they must smoke or I will not be answerable for the consequences, they entreat me to let them break themselves of the habit of not smoking gradually.

One cigarette a day to begin with, they beg of me, promising to increase the dose by degrees.

Why, man, one cigarette a day is poison; it is worse than not smoking.' "'But that is not what I did.' "'The idea is the same,' he said.

'Like the others, you make all this moan about giving up completely a habit you should never have acquired.
For my own part, I cannot even understand where the subtle delights of not smoking come in.