Word: smokes
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...meantime, I've gone on a so-called proton-pump inhibitor, a new kind of prescription drug that cuts down on acid production. I've also been given a list of changes to make in my life-style. Let's see: I don't drink or smoke or eat fatty foods, so I can't really stop. I'm not obese or even a little overweight, so losing weight won't help. That leaves giving up my beloved caffeine and my even more beloved bedtime snack. We'll see. I'm not making any promises...
...welding of reader with book, the stopping of time in darkroom or laboratory. But only in the rarest of situations is such focus wholly safe. Always a scrap of mindfulness must caress the environment, noting perhaps the softly closing door, the far-off squeak, the scent of perfume or smoke or fear, the look crossing someone's eyes. Full and undivided attention encourages all sorts of surprise, sometimes grisly, and some surprise originates within gates, among colleagues, even among friends about to become strangers...
...welding of reader with book, the stopping of time in darkroom or laboratory. But only in the rarest of situations is such focus wholly safe. Always a scrap of mindfulness must caress the environment, noting perhaps the softly closing door, the far-off squeak, the scent of perfume or smoke or fear, the look crossing someone's eyes. Full and undivided attention encourages all sorts of surprise, sometimes grisly, and some surprise originates within gates, among colleagues, even among friends about to become strangers...
Subtract 10 if you smoke, four if you live too far from family members to make spontaneous visits, seven if you are often overwhelmed by stress, and six if you are a couch potato...
That's not to say kids who have the smoking habit shouldn't try to quit as soon as they can. After all, there are plenty of other tobacco-related diseases--for example, heart disease, stroke and emphysema--that only get worse the longer you smoke...