The Smokers

I learned to smoke my sisters freshman year of college. I remember this because a friend of hers was going to visit and asked if I'd like to come along. On the drive down she asked me to reach in her bag and grab her a cigarette and light it.

I pushed the car lighter in (do cars still come with those?) and grabbed a cigarette and said I didn't know how.

She talked me though putting it in my mouth and explaining that you had to inhale to light a cigarette. It never occurred to me before that every one lit cigarettes in their mouth because you had to, not because it took two hands to strike a match or shield the flame as you went to light it.