Years back and recently out of school, I would smoke a couple a day. I worked a full time job and at a restaurant which was about 65 hours a week. It was simply the stress.

That lasted about a year, then I just stopped and never did it again.

My late father smoked up to five packs of Camels a day and would routinely pop the filters off beforehand. Seeing him in the hospital with a nurse sticking a tube down his throat to suck the phlem out so he could breathe is enough to prevent me from ever thinking about it again. And even as sick as that, he would ask me to smuggle cigarettes into the hospital for him!

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Current:
2014 VW Tiguan SEL 4Motion 43,000 miles.

2016 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport (wife's).

Past:
2006 Jetta TDI 135,970 miles. Sold Nov. '13.
1995 E-320 Special Edition. 220,200 miles. Sold Sept. '07.
1987 190-E 16 valve. 153,000 miles. Sold Feb. '06.
1980 300-D 225,000 miles. Donated to the National Kidney Foundation.
1980 240-D manual, 297,500 miles. Totaled by inattentive driver.