Yes, addictions. In early February 1982 I arrived home to Marrickville after a day of smoking (in the staffroom at Homebush Boys HS, on the Homebush Station platform while awaiting my train and then smoked my final cigarette - a point I had been deliberately approaching since having made the decision to discard the nicotine habit. What I was smoking was cigarettes. In fact the last I had discovered in my office desk drawer - a Gauloise! But cigarettes - not durries. I had only ever smoked durries - roll-your-owns - when living in Germany in 1977 - as cheaper than "tailoreds". [He thought for a moment as he deftly rolled the paper and tobacco into a durry, licked the edge and stuck it down. 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, (see page 3)] So to find - more than 40 years later - that durry has morphed into just another word for cigarette has come as something of a shock! Anyway - that's how I recall things. I have never since that afternoon smoked another cigarette! Jim
Yes, addictions. In early February 1982 I arrived home to Marrickville after a day of smoking (in the staffroom at Homebush Boys HS, on the Homebush Station platform while awaiting my train and then smoked my final cigarette - a point I had been deliberately approaching since having made the decision to discard the nicotine habit. What I was smoking was cigarettes. In fact the last I had discovered in my office desk drawer - a Gauloise! But cigarettes - not durries. I had only ever smoked durries - roll-your-owns - when living in Germany in 1977 - as cheaper than "tailoreds". [He thought for a moment as he deftly rolled the paper and tobacco into a durry, licked the edge and stuck it down. 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, (see page 3)] So to find - more than 40 years later - that durry has morphed into just another word for cigarette has come as something of a shock! Anyway - that's how I recall things. I have never since that afternoon smoked another cigarette! Jim