You may smoke

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“You may smoke, sir. I like the smell of tobacco.”

I lit the cigarette and blew a lungful at him and he sniffed at it like a terrier at a rathole. The faint smile pulled at the shadowed corners of his mouth.

Raymond Chandler

2 thoughts on “You may smoke”

  1. I like the scent of tobacco, especially the flavored ones. Used to hang out in a collector’s shop when I went to the local mall where I lived in NC just to breathe in the scent that leaked in from their tobacco room.

    I hate the scent of tobacco smoke, especially from cigarettes.

    • My grandfather smoked cigars, but not usually when we were around. (The smoke itself would have bothered me, too.) I adored him, so I have pleasant associations with that cigar smell.

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