Every time I did so I would enclose a pack of chewing gum, and tell him that, whenever he had the desire to smoke, he should chew a stick of gum.
母親就不聲不響接過去眯著眼抽起來，居然不像我學吐煙圈時，抽了就嗆。我奇怪地問：「媽媽，你會抽煙的呀！」她似笑非笑地說：「你爸爸以前也給我抽幾口的，他說心氣痛抽了會好。