"'It sounds like you actually believe this stuff.'
'It pays the mortgage,' Nick said. He offered this rationalization so many times now that it was starting to take on the ring of a Nuremberg defense. I vas only paying ze mortgage ..." Chap. 1, p. 12

"[BR] had begun his tobacco career working in the grubby, rough-and-tumble — and not always strictly legit — arena of cigarette machines. He was known to have an inferiority thing about it, so staffers tended to avoid references to vending machines, unless it was unavoidable." Chap. 1, p. 13

"It was understood among them that at any given, somewhere, someone in the 'vast federal bureaucracy' was issuing regulations against them. They were the Cavaliers of Consumption aligned on the field of battle against the Roundheads of Neo-Puritanism." Chap. 2, p. 29

"Sometimes, rarely, you get a situation where a smokers are cool or sexy ... but, nine times...