Life in Smoke A Memoir

Name: Life in Smoke A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780743289597

ISBN-10: 0743289595

ISBN-13: 9780743289597

Edition: N/A

Authors: Julia Hansen

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"I accepted the certainty of my untimely death with gallows humor and a calculator. I'd read somewhere that each cigarette you smoke knocks seven minutes off your time on the planet. To amuse myself, I did the math: 153,000 cigarettes = two years of my life, up in smoke."Julia Hansen first lit up at nineteen. Twenty years later, she was editing books about health -- and smoking a pack or two a day. She denied her son fast food, but smoked in the house and car; curtailed his video games, but lit up at his soccer matches. Despite repeated attempts to quit, she always crawled back to her beloved menthol lights. Smoking had become a metaphorical chain around her neck, shackling her to an early…

Book details

List price: $20.95
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 5/19/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English