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gmw · 12-24-2010, 11:05 PM

Have you read The Ghost from the Grand Banks by Arther C. Clarke? In there two of the characters have a job removing cigarettes and smoke from old movies. When I first read the book I found it funny ... but I gave up smoking 3 years, 11 months, 26 days and 2 hours ago now (but who's counting?

) and people lighting up in movies are definitely a trigger signal for me to start craving again - so now removing cigarettes from movies seems like a great idea!

I can't say I've noticed much about smoking in books, I've never noticed it as a trigger for my own craving. Mostly it seems to be just scene setting, like the light level and background noises and stuff. I seem to have managed to avoid it as a bad boy flag.

12-24-2010, 11:05 PM	#6
gmw cacoethes scribendi Posts: 5,818 Karma: 137770742 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura One & H2Ov2, Sony PRS-650	Have you read The Ghost from the Grand Banks by Arther C. Clarke? In there two of the characters have a job removing cigarettes and smoke from old movies. When I first read the book I found it funny ... but I gave up smoking 3 years, 11 months, 26 days and 2 hours ago now (but who's counting? ) and people lighting up in movies are definitely a trigger signal for me to start craving again - so now removing cigarettes from movies seems like a great idea! I can't say I've noticed much about smoking in books, I've never noticed it as a trigger for my own craving. Mostly it seems to be just scene setting, like the light level and background noises and stuff. I seem to have managed to avoid it as a bad boy flag.