But I flew down right away, sat at his bedside in the hospital during the last week of his life, and slept every night in their apartment, which reeked of tobacco
Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in ones own latent greatness. Which frankly, fitted the bill far better, because Svevo grasps the real nettle here: in a culture in which using a particular intoxicant is accorded the status of a quasi-acceptable vice, the individual smokers self-conception becomes hopelessly divided: on the one virtuous hand theres nary a yellowy stain, while on the other main sale the taint is deep and jaundiced
And also, the film has some pretty explicit violence
Quitting protects your skin from premature aging
Tamimi A, Serdarevic D, Hanania NA
what the hell were the It-Girls smoking