21.   Cigar smokers are more likely than nonsmokers to develop chronic obstructive lung disease, although again the risk is lower than that of cigarette smokers.

22.   Casinos have found that many older smokers are not eager to quit or to cede even more gambling space to nonsmokers.

23.   Clearly, most smokers are not that desperate, leaving the crucial question of why cigarettes are so alluring to people like Spence.

24.   Cigar smokers are the most generous of addicts.

25.   Cigarettes are an ever-easier target, because smokers are an ever-smaller group.

26.   Consequently, she said, smokers with co-factors are more likely to relapse than smokers who lack such underlying problems.

27.   Drivers are as hooked on cars as smokers are on cigarettes.

28.   Dumb question, of course, because smokers are voters, and thus considered victims, not responsible for their own behavior.

29.   Everyone outside the Tobacco Institute knows that smokers are more likely to keel over from lung cancer, heart disease and a host of other ailments.

30.   I am continually amazed how incredibly insensitive smokers are.