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As I stub out my last Marlboro Light of the day, I can't help but wonder what the world would be like if we were all visually impaired.
In his superb essay, Nicotine, Gregor Hens animadverts on the origins of this oft-quoted sentiment: "I've given up smoking more than any man alive, every time I stub one out I swear it's my last".
The only thing I want for in this strange liminal realm, in which every time I stub out a cigarette I swear it's my last, is someone to talk to about it; and not just idly chat, but intensely recall, debate and rhapsodise my relationship with nicotine.
The laws seem to persist, he wrote, "whatever the circumstance of how I look at them, and they are things about which it is possible to be wrong, as when I stub my toe on a rock I had not noticed".
If I stub my toe and wince, we believe that my toe stubbing causes my pain, which in turn causes my wincing.
That's weird because I've been playing video games, violent and otherwise, since I was a youngster, and the most violent I get is when I shout "son of a gun diddily-un" after I stub my toe.
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Suppose I stubbed my toe, and we ask 'when was the stubbing bad for me?' What exactly do we want to know?
I stubbed out the cigarette in the ashtray.
I stubbed my foot a few times but don't ever recall falling.
As I stubbed it out, I announced that I was a non-smoker.
A couple of months ago when I stubbed my little toe.
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