Cigarettes

Cigarettes

by Lamvi Dao. Edited by Jesse Stamell.

My sister, Mai, did all the work.

My dad was a smoker. We had no money when we first got on Pulau Bidong island.

What we did for our dad, (and we had to compete against other kids as well), is walk around certain common places and pick up left over cigarettes butts. Dad would take what was left from the butts that we collected and make a cigarette or two for himself.

He quit smoking years ago and is very healthy.

But one of the stupid jokes that we played on cigarette smokers was that we put empty cigarettes packs on the ground with poop in it. We played this joke for a while, but we eventually stopped because we felt sorry for everyone.

You know the rest of the story.

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