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What are you if you want a cigarette?from 20 years' experience of living with a smoker, I 'd say: unbearable
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I live with a smoker too - very true! My 8-year-old son came up with one - tempted!
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...something with "crave"? craving craveful (?)  Marianna Edit-in: And with this, my craving for AWAD membership has been satisfied! Yay!
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Congratulations, Marianna! I always loved the line in the play which recalls an episode of illicit passion during the blitz of London in WW2, when the doctor speaks of "seeing her face by the light of a post-coital Craven A".
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"seeing her face by the light of a post-coital Craven A".
I could never understand how smoking in the dark could be enjoyable. The only reason I ever smoked was that the Army allowed a break every fifteen minutes for a cigarette, but non-smokers were supposed to keep on working.
But there was a certain fascination to watching the vagaries of the plumes of smoke. The mere nicotine effect of smoking in the dark never appealed to me.
The bombshelter bit reminds me of a joke in Time magazine during WWII.In the dark,a girl gets kissed by a stranger. When her boyfriend discovers this he blusters: "I'll teach him a thing or two if I catch him!" The girl replies dreamily: "Oh, Albert, you couldn't teach him a thing!"
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non-smokers were supposed to keep on workingYes, but even the hardest workers need a little slack time, Bill 
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and seeing as we already halfway to the gutter, I only half apologise for: "Do you smoke after having sex?" "I don't know, I've never looked!"  Rod
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And with this, my craving for AWAD membership has been satisfied! Yay!Congratulations Marianna. and now I am cravulous, cravotic, cravenous, cravish (don't you eat them?), cravoid, cravelike, cravey (pour it over the cravish), cravial, cravaceous, cravewise  , cravety, craviferous, cravesome, for addict describing words. Rod
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"seeing her face by the light of a post-coital Craven A".
Proust's madeleine is my Craven-A: when we were kids in the 50s, my sophisticated lady mother used to smoke Craven-As. I adored the elegant black cat which adorned each packet. Maybe mum smoked them for the flavour, but I like to think she was attracted by the feline grace of the logo. Dad was a no-nonsense Turf man. When I was 10 or so I sneaked one of mum's ciggies. Pre-pubescent though I was, the guilty sense of dissipated sinfulness which followed pretty much approximated what I now suppose (from books I have read of course) post-coital tristesse to be.
(And am I correct in recalling that P-CT was evocatively evoked in Mary McCarthy's 'The Group'?)
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> "seeing her face by the light of a post-coital Craven A".To which I said "Huh?" Rusty finally clued me in > ...my sophisticated lady mother used to smoke Craven-As...*Thank* you! I initially read this as some Scarlet Letter allusion, which made only marginal sense - but now I get it. A brand name hadn't even crossed my mind... 
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