Dear Faldage: Some smokers have tongues far tougher than mine. My father smoked a brier
the size of his fist, and let it go out each time he went into a patient's house, and relit it
when he came out. I tried that just once and wished I could spit my tongue out.
The radiologist at CMGH smoked unbelievably bad cigars. I took one of them out of his
coat, and inserted a rubber band a couple inches into it. He smoked it, and just looked puzzled
at us interns who were choking from the burned rubber fumes.