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| cigarettes: this is the power of suggestion, he said, the psychosomatic silver bullet.� cigarettes aren't really addictive.� he said this leaning close over the table at the truck stop, them reeking on his breath.� it's an advertising gimmick.� get you to believe that you can't stop smoking.� but really there's no reason, no chemical reason, really. I know because I've been smoking 20 years, and I know I'm not addicted.� listen, the only thing is, you want to be consuming something, drawing in something to your chest that is part of society, made by someone else.� we need that, every moment some kind of mother's teat oral sucking on whatever society can provide, even death.� it connects us, keeps us from feeling alone.� so we buy things, as often as we can, to use them, chew them, wear them, smoke them, as often as we can. that's addictive, my friend.� his truckload of cigarettes was waiting outside. |