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NEITA: No more smoking 

Jump to full article: Jamaica Gleaner (jm), 2007-08-11
Author: Hartley Neita

Intro:

I started with the odd cigarette as a social smoker. When I stopped, I was smoking at least one pack of 20 cigarettes every day. The only times I did not smoke during my 'puffing' days were when I had a cold.

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I hated every Minister of Finance in those days. . .

All those years I tried to stop smoking, and failed. Once, K.D. Knight and I had to pay each other a dollar if either caught the other smoking. That did not work.

I do not know why I stopped smoking. It just happened. Since then, I have discovered that tobacco has an awful smell.

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