I hail from a family of smokers. My parents, their siblings, my cousins, my grandparents. New Years' family get-togethers were marked by cramped living rooms dense with smoke, full ashtrays waiting to be emptied and rows of beer and sake bottles on low tables. In high school I would come home to find my mother...
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