Ms. Sevrence worked with him to quit smoking within 30 days, and instructed Mr. Wisby and his wife Bonnie in the use of oxygen and medications to avoid flare-ups in his lungs.
Nine days later a smoking battery aboard an All Nippon Airways 787 led to an emergency landing in Japan.
If all goes well, though, the days when a smoking funnel was an icon of every child's drawing of a ship on the horizon may be numbered.
Keep Britain Tidy said fast-food litter was one of the main problems these days, and that smoking-related litter had doubled since bans were introduced for enclosed public places.
Gone forever, it sometimes seems, are the carefree days when a chain-smoking Arnold Palmer could cadge cigarettes off reporters in the gallery and still win majors.
Of course, society's perception of smoking has changed a lot since the days of doctors actually endorsing one brand or another in the first half of last century.
The Beach restaurant, a favourite for secular types, including foreign aid workers, was closed for three days after police nabbed a woman smoking a water-pipe.
Just a few days before, my translator and I were smoking cigarettes and enjoying some hot tea, waiting with a few sheiks for our weekly situation meeting to begin.
These days, there is no shortage of commercials showing the effects of cigarette smoking, but there are (as of this writing) none that show the desperation and panic derived from being in debt or facing a financial crisis.
Tantalising but outrageous attempts to glamorise smoking through billboards and films may largely be a thing of the past, but these days the industry uses subtler tactics to burnish its image as a business that, despite everything, cares about its consumers.
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