One more comment: My grandfather smoked cigars nearly every day of his life. To this day, I love the smell of cigars because it reminds me of him. At one point, he applied for a professorship at Redlands university. One of the intrview questions was, "Do you smoke?"
He answered, "Not habitually." He was probably in his twenties at the time. Years and years later, when he was in his eighties, he quit the cigars. Why did he do it? I guess he always felt a responsibility to have said the truth. He figured that if he quit eventually, it wasn't a habit, even if that referred back to something he said decades earlier.
Yes, a little odd, I know!
BTW, the professorship would have been in physics. He did teach at the Univ of Hawaii for a few years in the late twenties.
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Date: 2010-03-17 12:14 am (UTC)He answered, "Not habitually." He was probably in his twenties at the time. Years and years later, when he was in his eighties, he quit the cigars. Why did he do it? I guess he always felt a responsibility to have said the truth. He figured that if he quit eventually, it wasn't a habit, even if that referred back to something he said decades earlier.
Yes, a little odd, I know!
BTW, the professorship would have been in physics. He did teach at the Univ of Hawaii for a few years in the late twenties.
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