I was a drug addict. No, I didn’t use illegal drugs, such as cocaine, heroin, or morphine. My drug of choice was nicotine that I became addicted to by smoking filtered Marlboro cigarettes beginning when I was in high school, and I smoked them for too many years before I was finally able to quit.
My father smoked unfiltered Camel cigarettes for too may years. He started smoking when he was serving in the Army during World War II because they were “free” to U.S. soldiers from the tobacco companies. Wasn’t that nice of the tobacco companies? If the enemy didn’t kill them, the cigarettes eventually would.
When he smoked them in the house during cold weather when I was a child, I would get very painful earaches. He had a heart attack when he was 48. When I asked him to quit, he said he wouldn’t. He died at age 57, just two months shy of his 58th birthday. All seven of his nonsmoking siblings passed in their 80s.
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