In Defense of Tobacco — The Faux Louvre pg254

Colorful companion to my memoir The Incompetent Psychic

A Good Cigarette (cropped detail of cover art) 1980

2005

I wanted a cigarette, but what I really needed was a more affordable way to smoke with fewer health risks. During the seven years between when I had stopped lighting up until the day my dog died I had gained sixty pounds. I just kept getting heavier and heavier for…